Grimes Quotes

“I didn't have much in the world, but my fears were my own.”
― Nikki Grimes, Ordinary Hazards

“I don't want to be the face of this thing that I built. I want to be the person who built it.”
― c Boucher (Grimes)

“Grimes is ultimately a pop project. I consider pop to be just music that is ultimately extremely gratifying. It's music that just seeks to hit the pleasure center.”
― c Boucher (Grimes)

“I think Canadian music - especially in Montreal, songwriting is really important, but everyone makes electronic music. I guess that's what's really distinctive about bands like Purity Ring and Grimes, or Blue Hawaii, Mozart's Sister... It's electronic music and it has those pop-dance elements but I think the songwriting is really strong across the board.”
― c Boucher (Grimes)

“Based on the way that human brains develop, I think that people of my generation and younger are biologically different from people who did not hit adolescence with full access to the internet. It physically changes you, what you do at that period of your life.”
― c Boucher (Grimes)

“I don't think we spend enough time teaching creativity, and I think creativity is a muscle like other things.”
― c Boucher (Grimes)

“It's just so trippy watching consciousness emerge.”
― c Boucher (Grimes)

“I think having kids makes you such an optimist. It just inherently makes you want to be an optimist so bad.”
― c Boucher (Grimes)

“I think if we don't ideate about futures that could be good, we won't be able to get them.”
― c Boucher (Grimes)

“In think in society now, we're in a diagnosis mode. We're just diagnosing and diagnosing and diagnosing. We're trying to kill what we hate, and we're not trying to save what we love enough.”
― c Boucher (Grimes)

“I think all my other albums were, like, sad. And this time it’s more happy and angry. I live in my own house that I pay for. I bought all this equipment myself. I control my own life now. No one has any say over what I do or where I go or when I do it.”
― c Boucher (Grimes)