John Grant Quotes
I don't feel like I'm writing music for gay people. I'm a gay man who is writing music about one tiny little experience of what it's like to be a human on this planet.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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My health is fine.
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Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.
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There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
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Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.
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Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
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I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
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The best pop music is the songs that a group of people can dance to, but you can also listen to in your bed and cry. That's something obviously that The Beatles started and... so having that darkness there opens another door.
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I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.
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'No Bones' has some reverb that I kick around.
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Youth is seen as everything. You don't know anything when you're young. It's great being older, just having a more balanced perspective. I wake up and realise that what seemed to be important last year no longer is. I'm increasingly grateful for every day.
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I am not the most courageous guy in the world outside of the court.
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Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted.
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Where I have come unstuck sometimes has mostly been to do with the stories not being quite right or not connecting with a contemporary audience.
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I didn't realize what an impact having a No. 1 single would have. It connects me with people of different ages, and I get to travel all over the world.
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I don't think people care about the mechanics of songwriting.
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We record when I have a hole in the schedule. Sometimes night, sometimes afternoon, sometimes morning - we fit it in when we can. I prep for episodes all the time.
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I don't feel like I'm writing music for gay people. I'm a gay man who is writing music about one tiny little experience of what it's like to be a human on this planet.
