Grimes Quotes

I'm not a media darling. I'm forever the outsider, for whatever the reason is.

The critics had an image of me, and they wouldn't accept any other... I was a cartoon character. A joke.

Every story about me is so heavy and dramatic. That's not how I do life. But that's the impression people have, and that's what keeps getting reiterated. As if I'm still stuck in all the muck of the past. And I am so not.

I don't think I'm portrayed in the media the way I really am - but then who is?

When I first started doing press, one of the things people started pushing was this idea that I'd somehow escaped something. And I was really offended, because I hadn't escaped anything.

When I see my picture in the papers, I imagine that people think I'm a lot more serious than I am. They probably think I'm pretty miserable.

Some of what I get, I deserve; I do some dumb stuff sometimes. But I do not deserve the perception that I have.

I love Crowley for being an audacious man at certain point in time. I think he's greatly misunderstood. He was a good guy, but he was portrayed as an evil man, and he wasn't.

Nobody is like the person I am on TV, surely, only Cruella de Vil, or the wicked witch from Snow White.

People used to assume I was a serious/sad person because of my music for some reason.

I'm probably one of the most misunderstood people in the league.

Young people are often portrayed in a very negative and stereotypical manner.

I never said, I am just a beauty queen or just an actress.

No one really has any idea about me. To me, what I give you is what happens onscreen, and past that, anything you're coming up with in your own head, you're creating in your own mind.

I'm not a sex symbol, at least in the conventional sense.

When you're an artist, you're expected to describe yourself in interviews every day in five words.

I've been very transparent with reporters, but they only want to print mean stuff.

I'm very aware of my image and the perception of me.

I can't be happy if I want to because the media won't let me be. They keep propagating a tacky image of mine. They even make my charity work look like a publicity stunt.

I think it's easy for them to portray me as an aggressive player, but I'm not.

Just because I'm confident and will tell you that I'm awesome and that I'm great, I'm all of the sudden the bad guy? Why am I always the bad guy?

That image of who I was publicly was so solidified. You're that person. And it wasn't even close to a true representation of where I was in my life.

Take any celebrity - all we really know is what they choose to tell us or what they show us in public.

I do enjoy doing the TV work, but I try to be careful not to do too much. Otherwise, you end up being recognised just for being on television rather than for your own stuff.

I think what happens is, people do just want to see you as a glamour doll that's put up on screen, but I guess it's how you see yourself.