197 Quotes by Grimes

It's kind of like I'm Phil Spector, and I'm forcing a young girl to make pop music and perform exhaustively. Except, instead of it being someone else, that girl is also me.

My manager lives on my block; four of the apartments in my apartment complex of seven are people I know. It's a really close-knit community, and almost everyone on these few blocks are artists or graphic designers, because we live right on the cusp of a warehouse district.

You don't just have to be influenced by rock, or goth, anymore. It's okay to say, 'My influences are Tin Pan music from Bali and Rihanna.' There are still so many combinations that haven't been done yet.

If you look at the way people behave at shows, icons are now musicians; they are the people that we worship.

I just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.

I love humanity, I love the way people look

I can tell really early on in a painting if I'm going to toss it or not.

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.

Fashion can be a really powerful tool, but it's also a place where you can be totally humiliated and have your power taken from you.