197 Quotes by Grimes

Lately I've been really into screaming a lot through delay [effects], having seven people on stage topless going crazy, stuff like that. Really in your face, but maybe more organic than choreographed dance moves.

The last thing I think about when I'm making music is its reception.

When I'm making something I need it to be catchy - I need it to hit the sweet spot.

I love pop music, but I also love noise music, IDM - anything really, I get something out of most kinds of music. I just need to enjoy the process.

I think you can hear, when you listen to someone's music, whether or not they're enjoying making it - it's so great to hear music where you can tell the person making it was just having a blast. That's really important to me as far as my process goes. That's probably why my music ends up being so poppy!

It takes me probably about four hours to get into the groove [with making music]. And it's really important for me to not break the groove.

I only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I'll black out the windows or something.

One thing with Montreal is it's so cold and everyone's so poor and beer's so cheap: if you go to a show you have to brave the weather to get there. So you show up and everyone's soaking wet - there's a sense of 'I trekked through three feet of snow to get here!' I think there's a kind of camaraderie that arises out of that, that's important to me as well.

There aren't many other labels who I can say are that successful, and can give me as much as 4AD gives me, and still have such a great roster.