Grimes

“I believe the human mind is a very fallible thing, but it's the only thing that I can really know, I guess.”

“I think my sound is post-Internet.”

“The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they're having a good time.”

“I've always been such a nerd.”

“I just can't perform well unless I'm wearing jeans.”

“Basically, I'm really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.”

“I'm sad that it's uncool or offensive to talk about environmental or human rights issues.”

“Miami is just really fun whenever I go there. It's like this post-apocalyptic Barbie world: everything is pink, and there're palm trees everywhere. But then there are also all these people in crazy sunglasses, warehouses with sick parties where all the girls are covered in spikes and black leather. It's a very weird place.”

“When I first started out, I was making really slow, psychedelic ambient music because it was all I could do.”

“I don't even wear shoes with heels because I hate making a noise when I walk and people looking at me.”

“When I'm making a song that's very Grimes, it just feels very insular and it feels weird to have someone else do something on it.”

“I've always been very intense about everything I do.”

“Music is a religion to me and my friends.”

“There used to be a lot of industry in Montreal, and now there's not, so it's really easy to get huge, empty spaces where you can practice and make music or make art for very, very cheap.”

“I always wanted to be really experimental.”

“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.”

“I'm against spending money to record.”

“There are a lot of musicians I've met on Twitter where it was like, 'Hey, I like your music' - and then I ended up meeting them and it turned into a friendship.”

“I think if you're good at art, you'll be good at most types of art.”

“I like to aestheticize every possible thing that can be aestheticized.”