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Laura Jane Grace

Profession : Musician

Birth : November 8, 1980

Trying to cause chaos - I think that's the way I create change.

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I've never had trouble talking and expressing my feelings.

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What I learned early on, is that it's not really fun to do things alone.

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When I was 19 or 20, the way I was an activist was by regularly meeting with groups, going to protests, and being there on the ground.

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As an artist, you're just observing the world around you. So much is overwhelming and it's all so inescapable that it can't all speak to general cultural statements.

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Butch Vig was a true friend and really guided us, and it was such a fulfilling relationship with a person to make records with.

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Hormone replacement therapy does not change or affect your voice. And I have no problem with my voice: I really like my singing voice, I don't feel any dysphoria with my talking voice.

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A lot of what keeps me going is wanting to be better, thinking I'm not good enough.

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At 8, I got my first cassette, which was Def Leppard's 'Hysteria.'

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Eating's really important before getting tattooed. You need energy.

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I think the hardest part for musicians is what a wide gulf of time there is between when you decide to sober up and when you have the ability to navigate being social and having relationships and being in a band and having friends while sober.

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As a trans person, I don't feel welcome in most public spaces. Especially now with Trump, I don't feel faith or recognize that we're protected by the government or administration.

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I had some real health complications with my HRT - hormone replacement therapy.

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I guess I get a little impatient and frustrated when people ask what 'Manic Depression' is about.

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To me, the songs that I'm most thankful to have been a part of creating are the songs that are able to adapt and change over the years and that mean different things to you at different periods of time in your life.

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My first record I ever got was 'Full Moon Fever.' My dad gave me a copy when I was maybe nine years old or something. And I listened to the heck out of that record. I loved that record.

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Maybe you don't know who a person is just based on the way they dress. I know that's a really simple thing you're supposed to be taught really young, but sometimes you can forget.

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In a perfect world, in my opinion, 'they,' 'them,' and 'theirs' would be the pronouns that everyone would use.

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Any doctor will tell you a great treatment for depression is exercise, physical exertion, that it really ups the dopamine in your brain, so that's what a show is. I play a show and that's a high for me; I can ride that.

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I moved to Naples, Florida, and by 15 I was into punk: Green Day, Rancid, NOFX, Operation Ivy. Along with the classic punk bands, like the Sex Pistols, the Clash, the Misfits, Dead Kennedys, Minor Threat - all those bands that you get into when you're first getting into punk.

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