197 Quotes by Grimes

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.

Whenever I’m making music I’m always waiting for the shivers to happen – that’s an important thing for me.

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.

I’m a very unhealthy person, and Montreal is very cold, and I’m usually sick when I’m there.

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.

I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it.

Mariah Carey is my favorite singer because her voice sounds utterly groundless. It’s not even a human voice; it almost sounds mechanical.

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.

When an artist, or whomever, moves from their scene to the bigger pond, it starts getting crazy, because all of a sudden people don’t respect you, and you have to start being a lot more aggressive than you would normally be.