197 Quotes by Grimes

I like being behind the camera because I can control perception and what people see.

I've never lived outside of Canada, so I've been really cold my entire life. Most of my memories are coloured by the fact that I was really cold, just... all the time!

As a producer, I'm trying to challenge myself to just make something that is of a professional quality - not necessarily pop music, but maybe in the sense that Nine Inch Nails is professional quality.

Sometimes you find people who are magnetic, but once they get in front of a camera, they freak out and get weird.

I'm so sick of my own music that I don't know if I can edit another video, which involves hundreds of hours of listening to your own song again and again and again. It becomes so grating after a while.

Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.

I prefer making videos to making music.

I just can't perform well unless I'm wearing jeans.

If I think about what other people are thinking when I'm making music, I just can't do it. It's too withheld - I need to go totally over the top, and then kind of clean it up a bit and make it more reasonable after the fact.