John Grant Quotes
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The lead character in 'Adaptation' is pretty much me but with more talent. Every time I watch 'Adaptation,' I feel very emotional because it makes me be kinder to myself and see the human situation a little more clearly.
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It's always been my goal to have backing singers.
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I'm quite gregarious. But when it comes to relationships, I mean, I'm no good at it. I suck at it. And people say I'm way too hard on myself, but I always feel like somebody else is going to say it if I don't. Why not just beat them to the punch so it doesn't hurt so much?
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I felt like a failure for so long because I wasn't able to access myself in the way I knew I would have if I was going to make music that mattered. I knew I was going to have to learn how to be honest.
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I'm angry because I was so scared for so many years about just being myself.
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The thing is I don't feel like my story is special. I don't feel like it's different to anybody else.
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In order to not have to deal with being gay in the world, you have to control everything. You try and walk in an un-gay way so as not to be found out. You try to control every situation, check the people around you, that you're not in the wrong place, and that can be exhausting. It goes on for decades, and it becomes mental sickness.
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Me becoming a person, instead of somebody who just hides and is afraid, has happened in tandem with me learning to write music and become a good songwriter.
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When I reached my senior year in high school, I fell into a hole that took a couple of decades to get out of.
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I just felt that I was going to fall apart if I didn't learn to be myself.
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I've kept most of my friends for decades, and I continue to make new friends.
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In my family, I was loved, but only if I would fight this gay thing and not let it take over me. I would be loved unconditionally if I could be cured of my 'sickness,' but it certainly would not be OK if I couldn't.
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If 'Queen Of Denmark' was about my childhood, then 'Pale Green Ghosts' is definitely about my adolescence, and that period was completely dominated by electronic music.
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I think I have a great voice, but it's not special enough to be remembered. But what's special about me is much more than just my voice.
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I don't let the computer into my bedroom. It would get in the way of life, sleep. And I really can't let that happen.
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I realized that a lot of the things I had been telling myself about not being good enough just weren't true, and 'Queen of Denmark' gave me the chance to prove to myself that I could do something real.
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There's an incredible amount of pain involved in being a human, but this humorous stuff is essential in overcoming it.
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The only difficult thing is learning to recognise the interesting bits from those millions of moments life provides you with every day and writing down those snippets.
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When I got into languages, I needed to amass things to make myself more palatable or more acceptable as a human.
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I seem to be very attracted to strong female personalities in acting and music.
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My mother was a very sweet soul and a beautiful person, but she had a lot of fear.
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I can't create music if I'm wearing a mask and not being myself, and that was the problem with The Czars.
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Reykjavik has a mixture of southern and northern mentality. There's a laid-back, relaxed attitude but also the feeling things are going to get done.
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When I was young, people were so disgusted by me. Before I even knew that I was gay... everybody else had it figured out and, you know, they were letting you know.