Grimes Quotes

Not to be boxed in, to be able to transcend boundaries: for an artist, it's essential.

If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.

There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist.

I tend to just do whatever I want on an album and try to make it work. I'm just adventurous. It's most exciting to be at the edge of your abilities. I want to see how far I can push things.

I want to see creativity that breaks boundaries and isn't just about money.

I think we shouldn't buckle up our creativity. You've got to experiment!

I don't want to limit myself to any genre or language or a type. I want to always surprise the audience and, hence, keep raising the bar for myself.

An artist should be taking risks. That's the whole idea of being an artist.

You can't buy something which does not exist. In a way, let's make things exist and then judge later. Don't cancel the process of creativity too early; let it flow.

My respect for artists is very high. I think to get the most out of them, you have to liberate them. I think part of liberating them is saying, 'Come up with something brilliant, new, and fresh. Stop thinking based on what has been beat into you by executives or publishers in terms of what's going to work and what's not. Don't react, just act.'

In a lot of formats, you can be really experimental and see what would happen.

It's all about risk-taking when you're making an album. Don't be scared to do weird things sometimes.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

I never got tied down to any social scene. I was just into creating stuff. And I think, even today, that's how I'm able to work and move between so many different genres - I want to be part of what's happening, I want to make new things.

I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing; I don't know if it's any good. I don't know if it's anything. It's a big question mark. The idea is to have interesting results. That's my bottom line.

What guides me is to do work that's more avant-garde - things that I think are special. You can easily become a celebrity and get caught up in all that blur. I just want to work and surprise myself.

When I'm making stuff, the thing that excites me most is not the result, but the process and trying to do something I've never done before.

There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before.

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail

More or less, I am always saying, 'Let's do what has not been done.'

When you're building a show from the ground up, there are no answers or wrong move, because there's no bible.

I think if anything, what 'The Astonishing' proved is that we're always going to experiment.

As far as creation goes, you just really have to not overthink and just create and be confident. If you think it's tight, then the world is going to think it's tight.

Give the composer time to experiment, time to try out ideas. Also, the time to fail. When the composer has very little time, the temptation is to reach for stock ideas - ideas they know will work and have worked in the past.

I wanna make weird stuff.