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'.

Ugly girls generally don't become successful in music. And it sucks because it's a standard that just exists.

Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.

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 have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don't feel that way about anything else.

I don't want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living.

It's really hard to be on stage and packing your gear when people who just saw you play are in the room, because they all just want to talk to you.