Grimes Quotes

All art is an intensely vulnerable gesture, and it is made with no small amounts of risk, and fear. So, I have plenty of sympathy for self-defense mechanisms, especially among artists.

There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.

All good art is an indiscretion.

People are usually afraid to say what's on their mind.

It is hard for me to be vulnerable, because I never learned how to do that. I was never vulnerable in a safe way.

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I'm willing to show you. In you, it's courage and daring. In me, it's weakness.

Songwriting is the most terrifying thing to me, because you are really laying your heart out there.

I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don't get sentimental. I think we're all afraid to reveal our hearts. It's not at all in fashion.

Writing is a very intimate thing, especially when you write lyrics and sing them in front of someone for the first time. It's like a really embarrassing situation. To me, singing is almost like crying, and you have to really know someone before you can start crying in front of them.

I don't know what else you could do that is more vulnerable - maybe dancing - than singing.

If you're not going to tell something if you're not going to expose something it's real easy to go in and photograph from behind the camera and not expose any of your weaknesses.

Some people are uncomfortable saying what they feel.

The hardest thing for - not only an artist but for anybody to do is look themselves in the mirror and acknowledge, you know, their own flaws and fears and imperfections and put them out there in the open for people to relate to it.

I find, the older I get, the more surprised I am about how hesitant people are to say what they really want, what they really dream about, what really drives them. It's as if sometimes we're sort of embarrassed, as we get older, to be transparent about that. But you save so much time if you're transparent about what you want.

There's something so naked about being on stage as a musician. I think about that even with standup comedy or something - like, 'This is it, this is what I got.'

I wonder sometimes if I've got in the habit of only being courageous when someone else has written the words I have to say.

I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy.

I'm angry because I was so scared for so many years about just being myself.

The thing with 'Lost Without You' is that for a long time I didn't feel like I could share it with people. When it came to releasing it, it was a cliff-diving moment.

If you've written something that moves you and frightens you, you just can't take it back.

The risk of being honest can lead to people ostracizing you. It's easier to cling to the persona, the stage, the reputation that people want to see.

It's scary being in a room with producers and saying, 'Here's my idea,' when I'm scared to get shot down.

Whenever I go onstage or in front of a camera, I always want to pour my soul out because I know I have a lot to offer.

I want to say things on stage that I wouldn't have the guts to say in conversation.

Sometimes I put my heart in front of my technique.