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

- Grimes

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.

- Grimes

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

- Grimes

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

- Grimes

Removing all stimulation around you is a really positive thing in terms of stimulating your creativity.

- Grimes

I get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest.

- Grimes

From an early age, I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn't doing something creative.

- Grimes

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

- Grimes

I start a lot of songs and throw them out because the energy is not right. It's almost like the file becomes cursed. I have to delete it.

- Grimes

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.

- Grimes

Music is a religion to me and my friends.

- Grimes

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

- Grimes

If you tell someone you're doing something innovative, they'll think you're doing something innovative.

- Grimes

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

- Grimes

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.

- Grimes

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.

- Grimes

I'm tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway.

- Grimes

I'm a very nervous, shy person.

- Grimes

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.

- Grimes

I like creating beauty out of scary things.

- Grimes