Grimes Quotes

I want to create music that moves me, not just music that is going to get me famous or make someone at a label happy.

At the end of the day, I just like to make the best music that I can make and put it out to the world and see how they respond to it.

I've never written one note or word of music simply because I think it will make money.

If people would like to come to my concerts I'd love them to come. And if they like the music that I make, I love that too. But I do not make music for other people. I make it to please myself.

I try not to think about the idea of reaching more and more people, because once you get in that mindset, I think you lose the point of why you're doing it in the first place. Still, the best feeling I ever get is when I finish a song, and it exists, and it didn't exist before, and now it's there, and it makes me feel a certain way.

if I'd thought that nobody would like it as I was writing it, I would have written it even more. But I never think of the audience. I never think of people reading. I never think of people, period.

It's not like I go into the studio and say I'm going to try to make music to prove to somebody that I can make music.

I'm writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn't an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.

I stand by the Lost finale. It's the story that we wanted to tell, and we told it. No excuses. No apologies. I look back on it as fondly as I look back on the process of writing the whole show. And while I'll always care what you think, I can't be a slave to it anymore. Here's why: I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it. And I was really … I was alive.

I try not to think the song to death. The main criteria is if it's working on an emotional level.

Looking back upon my work today, I think the best I have done grew out of things deeply felt, the worst from a pride in mere talent.

I just do what I do. I like to make music.

My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just to make a painting.

Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.

I'm just excited that I get to put out the music I love versus music just for the sake of it.

I try to make my music interesting to me first, then hopefully other people will find it interesting, too.

Satisfying myself is the point in filmmaking, in my mind.

Everyone who makes music is a good collaborator at their foundation because in order to make music, you have to connect to it in a way that other people can't.

To me, music shouldn't be ego-driven. When you go out on stage and play songs, it is. But when you're sitting in a room, writing songs, it's a completely different process. It's a completely different place. It's a creative place, a musical place. It has nothing to do with who likes what.

Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.

The way that I've always gone about making music, the rule of thumb, has just been to make what I love.

People ask whether I put the politics first, journalism first or the comedy first; it doesn't really matter. I'm just playing with the cards that I have been dealt because I really love doing what I do.

Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.

I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.

I don't want to be doing movies that I don't want to do. They take so much out of you.