Grimes
Grimes
Electronic dark wave and synthpop artist whose 2012 album Visions won the 2013 JUNO Award for Electronic Album of the Year.
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth17 March 1988
CityVancouver, Canada
CountryCanada
across page power seemed spread time transport
It seemed uncanny that words, spread across a page just so, had the power to transport me to another time or place. But they could.
insular
When I'm making a song that's very Grimes, it just feels very insular and it feels weird to have someone else do something on it.
assumed coming dressed men
We would see nothing but men coming in and trashy dressed women. We just assumed that that's what it was.
added although best ended fire forward fuel great looking opportunity perhaps players returning season
We are all looking forward to the 2005 season. The 2004 season we had some great success. Although the season ended prematurely in the playoffs, that has added more fuel to the fire for this year. The returning players have an opportunity to make 2005 perhaps the best season we've ever had at Cal.
adult along books couple funny happened kept looked originally planned return
Originally I had planned to write just a couple of children's books and then, return the focus on adult literature. A funny thing happened along the way - I kept having new ideas, and then I looked up one day, and 30 years had passed!
badly betrayed broken child existence faced few fewer foster gave home problems spoke stories
In one sense, the stories I read betrayed me. Too few gave me back my mirror image. Fewer still spoke to, or acknowledged, the existence of the problems I faced as a black foster child from a dysfunctional and badly broken home.
Writing is a muscle that needs to be exercised.
affected answer child community family former group includes law members name protective
The panel is a 16-person group that includes law enforcement offices, Child Protective Services, affected family members and former users, to name a few. They will be there to answer community questions.
became clinic high kansas medical outside school tech
With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.
age life maybe
My life has never been wonderful. Maybe when I was a child, but not after age 15.
aunt family rod ruled
My Aunt Marsha ruled the family with a rod of iron. She was one wicked, mean woman.
continues glad happiness life
Life continues to be difficult. It always will be because that's just life. But I am so glad I have put some happiness into the world.
life
It's all in how you look at your life, because no one has a wonderful life. But you can make it what you want it to be.
behind drawer shut totally
I put the movie days totally behind me... It was a part of my past that I really kind of put in a little drawer and shut the door.