"The Mars project is hard. There’s no income for it. There’s no way for it to make money,” she said of her lover's aspirations. "It’s for the benefit of humanity, and it’s dangerous and it’s expensive, and people are like, He’s hoarding money! No, he’s spending everything on R&D."
“Like, bro wouldn’t even get a new mattress," Grimes told the interviewer, adding that Musk allegedly offered they swap his mattress for the one she had in her own house.
"Bro lives at times below the poverty line. To the point where I was like, can we not live in a very insecure $40,000 house? Where the neighbors, like, film us, and there’s no security, and I’m eating peanut butter for eight days in a row?" she suggested.
"We live in this society right now where people expect everyone to behave right, and talk right,” she is quoted as saying about Musk's eccentricity and public perception. "You have these manifestations of genius, but then you want them to behave normally—but the reason they’re like that is because they’re so disconnected from correct behavior."
"There’s no real word for it," she said. "I would probably refer to him as my boyfriend, but we’re very fluid. We live in separate houses. We’re best friends. We see each other all the time…. We just have our own thing going on, and I don’t expect other people to understand it."
“Me and E have broken up *again* since the writing of this article haha, but he’s my best friend and the love of my life, and my life and art are forever dedicated to The Mission now,” Grimes tweeted. She did not elaborate as to the definition of the "Mission."