John Grant Quotes
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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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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.
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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 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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'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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If I had a good scream, like Frank Black, I'd be doing punk music, 'cos I love that.
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I come from a position where it seems like I have an addictive quality to everything in my life.
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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 suppose my ideal brain food is learning languages.
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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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I don't want to leave the house, and I don't want to settle down.
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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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I can't allow myself to censor myself.
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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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It took me a long time to find my own voice, even after I started making my own music.
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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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There's a lot of anger in 'Queen of Denmark,' and that's me getting political.
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I love a lot of different styles, but my heart belongs in electronic music.
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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 love patchwork quilts. But not in music.
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I think the thing that I find the most difficult to talk about is religion.
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Icelanders love to speak English. Their English is a joy to hear because of how colloquial and idiomatic it is, but they appreciate your efforts with Icelandic.
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I don't really listen to my old music.