Grimes
Grimes
Electronic dark wave and synthpop artist whose 2012 album Visions won the 2013 JUNO Award for Electronic Album of the Year.
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth17 March 1988
CityVancouver, Canada
CountryCanada
driving people wanting
I'm actually not a particularly negative person, but I feel like most things are better when they're not actualized. The motivation that comes from wanting something is so much more driving of people than actually getting it.
people want
Especially with music, people want confidence.
play people want
It's really hard to be on stage and packing your gear when people who just saw you play are in the room, because they all just want to talk to you.
wanted
I always wanted to be really experimental.
fashion want sci-fi
I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
inspire trying want
I want to say my life inspires my lyrics, but I also try to abstract them as much as possible because I don't want to refer to my life explicitly. I'm definitely really embarrassed by my lyrics.
order want moral
I don't want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living.
expectations people want
Most people see what they want to, or at least what they expect to.
children answers want
Children can ask what adults don't dare to because we don't want to admit we're scared and we don't really want to hear the answers.
art easy empty industry music spaces
There used to be a lot of industry in Montreal, and now there's not, so it's really easy to get huge, empty spaces where you can practice and make music or make art for very, very cheap.
bad
The thing is, I really like working. If I sit around too much, I get really bad anxiety.
good
I'm not good at being, like, a sexy girl.
art freaked people totally unless worried
I'm not interested in making art unless I'm totally freaked out and worried people are going to hate it.
sort
I'm not, like, a natural performer. It's sort of a thing that I've had to learn to do.