197 Quotes by Grimes

I'm not interested in making art unless I'm totally freaked out and worried people are going to hate it.

I'm not, like, a natural performer. It's sort of a thing that I've had to learn to do.

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.

I need to be able to work for 20 or 30 hours in one go in complete darkness, alone with just the computer glow.

I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I'm on tour, and it's just hard.

I approach music- and this sounds crazy- as though I'm Phil Spector, and I'm cranking out these pop stars and forcing them to do all this stuff-except they're all me. But I'm not, like, transgendered.

Especially with music, people want confidence.

You rarely find someone who sings really well and who produces really well; it's a problem, and I just think it's a missing link in the music scene.

In America there's lot of cool cities, but in Canada there's, like, well, Vancouver, Toronto and Halifax may be cool, but they're so expensive. Montreal is the only city that's affordable but also has buses and culture.