John Grant Quotes
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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 got into languages, I needed to amass things to make myself more palatable or more acceptable as a human.
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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 seem to be very attracted to strong female personalities in acting and music.
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I can't allow myself to censor myself.
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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.
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'Ernest Borgnine' is sort of my version of Woody Allen's 'Purple Rose Of Cairo' in that it's about the occasional difficulty of coming to terms with the cold hard facts and the temptation to escape into another world - like movies, for example. I'm a pro at escaping.
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I could probably use some tips from a vocal trainer or something about breathing, but we all know it's not about technical prowess.
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I don't want to leave the house, and I don't want to settle down.
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I think the humor, when applied in the right amount, only serves to intensify the other emotions in a given song; it highlights them, makes them stand out.
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It really was an amazing thing when Midlake brought me down to Texas and created an atmosphere in which I felt really safe and was able to do whatever I wanted artistically.
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If I had a good scream, like Frank Black, I'd be doing punk music, 'cos I love that.
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I think the thing that I find the most difficult to talk about is religion.
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I think The Czars had an identity crisis, as we were five guys pulling in different musical directions.
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You can only be you, and there are plenty of people out there who wouldn't have you be any other way.
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I just feel like this guy who's visiting the music business over the weekend. Every time I write a song, I feel like it's never going to happen again.
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I don't really listen to my old music.
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I love a lot of different styles, but my heart belongs in electronic music.
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I suppose my ideal brain food is learning languages.
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There's a lot of anger in 'Queen of Denmark,' and that's me getting political.
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I believe humans have a soul that continues to exist after they die, but I don't know what form that will take.
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I had never considered myself a political guy, but there are certain things I can't shut up about. When I hear people say things like, 'If 'we' allow gays to marry, then people will want to marry animals and children,' I can't just stand there.
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I love patchwork quilts. But not in music.