Grimes Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“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.”

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

“If I'm a bad mood, I can't go on stage and smile.”

“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.”

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

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

“I like creating beauty out of scary things.”

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

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