Laura Jane Grace Quotes

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Laura Jane Grace

Profession : Musician

Birth : November 8, 1980

Every musician out there wants to be judged on the merit of their songwriting, the merit of their performing abilities.

Laura Jane Grace

I don't want to be just that transgender performer or that transgender musical artist. I want to create songs and art and have those be judged on their merit alone.

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I never get to forget who I am, my gender identity.

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I feel self-conscious for even having met so many other band people and artists, I don't want to be that artist that is only able to talk about themselves and their own band. I don't want to be that person. I'd rather just be quiet than be that person.

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I had gone from being married with a kid, two cars, garage, nice house in a nice neighborhood to all of it gone.

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Writing your memoir is inherently narcissistic.

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I felt more and more like I was putting on an act - like I was being shoved into this role of 'angry white man in a punk band.'

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I look like a dude and feel like a dude, and it sucks. But eventually I'll flip, and I'll present as female.

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Growing up, my experience with transsexualism was nothing but shame. It was something very hidden, and dealt with very privately.

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I'd never have imagined it when I was younger. A trans woman on the cover of 'Time?' That is unfathomable to the 15-year-old me.

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I like the idea that the body is a vessel, that it's not necessarily representative of the real you that's inside of it.

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As technology and science advances, I think the ability to alter yourself should be embraced.

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A lot of people don't perceive me as female or trans, they just see some rocker.

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I don't feel like I've ever been in mainstream society.

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I remember being really young - being 13 or 14 - when I first was really excited about punk rock as an idea, and I was like, 'Don't ever not be punk. Don't ever not be punk.' Telling that to myself, I guess it was like self-defense against the scary world around me.

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I fear cops and have never felt the protection of them.

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Chicago prides itself on being a mean city.

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I grew up in Italy, so for me, Naples pizza is the only type of pizza that there really is.

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My favorite video game when I was a kid was this game called 'Metroid' and the main character of 'Metroid' was Samus. Samus has this body armor suit, helmet and everything except at the end of the game, the helmet comes off and it was revealed that Samus was actually a woman.

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Society doesn't portray transsexual people in a very positive light.

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