Grimes

“I want to make an a cappella record to release for free.”

“There's definitely a solitary aspect to not having a band, and there are times when I wish that I did.”

“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.”

“If I went on 'American Idol,' I would definitely be kicked out immediately.”

“My image seems to be so infantilized, and I don't really know why. It belittles the music.”

“I feel like vocals are to music what portraits are to painting. They're the humanity. Landscapes are good and fine, but at the end of the day everyone loves the Mona Lisa.”

“I'm just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.”

“I'm a super-introverted person.”

“The way that you present yourself visually totally dictates your audience and everything that anyone thinks about you.”

“I like creating beauty out of scary things.”

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

“I'm not trained in music.”

“I'm tired of being considered vapid for liking pop music or caring about fashion as if these things inherently lack substance or as if the things I enjoy somehow make me a lesser person.”

“By the time I'm 50, there is probably going to be a nuclear holocaust. I should just enjoy myself.”

“I don't think I know anyone who has a steady job in Montreal.”

“It's obviously funny to be a meme, so I could be down with it in that regard, but it also belittles one's art.”

“You want people to hate you. If you're just making people happy, you're like Mumford & Sons.”

“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.”

“I can't censor myself; it's really important for me to say how I feel.”

“I went through my adolescence having this revelatory experience - I can have any music I want, and I can get it immediately. For me and for a lot of people I know, there's this musical eclecticism that happened.”