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.

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 listen to a lot of medieval music.

Usually when I make music, in my head I'm like 'this isn't Grimes, this is just some other project that you can release later, so there's no pressure and it doesn't matter and no-one's ever gonna hear it'.

I find it really hard to throw myself into something artistically where I'm making up a whole character and finding something for that character to do.

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

I only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I'll black out the windows or something.