Laura Jane Grace Quotes

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Laura Jane Grace

Profession : Musician

Birth : November 8, 1980

I was always attracted to women.

Laura Jane Grace

If I want someone to recognize the gender identity I feel, I'd have to ask for that. I can't assume people will know how I'd like to be treated on their own.

Laura Jane Grace

Growing up, I never had a role model to show me that you can be trans and live a happy life. I hope that I can be that source of hope for someone out there who's struggling.

Laura Jane Grace

I'm totally fine with myself. It's the other people I run into out there who are so hung up on gender. The way it trips them up is their problem, not mine.

Laura Jane Grace

Being able to write about love through a trans lens is something that's not really represented when it comes to love songs.

Laura Jane Grace

I've always wanted to be a writer, and I've kept journals since I was eight years old.

Laura Jane Grace

I'm just me and if me being honest about who I am and putting myself out there in that way makes connections with people and helps people out, that's just repaying the favor of music because that's what music does for me.

Laura Jane Grace

People don't have to understand a language to understand the emotion and sentiment behind a song.

Laura Jane Grace

Striving to make music that empowers people as opposed to making them feel like they're being beaten down every single day is so important.

Laura Jane Grace

There were definitely songs in the past that were me dealing with living this gender dysphoria, and sometimes they were really direct and no one picked up on it - but oftentimes, they were more veiled in metaphor.

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My earliest memories are of dysphoria.

Laura Jane Grace

The key to being a great band that lasts is always going to be making sure you write really good songs and put on really good shows.

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It would be weird enough just being in a band trying to date. It makes it harder being a parent. And it makes it really interesting when you're trans.

Laura Jane Grace

I had definitely stopped watching MTV by 2000.

Laura Jane Grace

Fred Durst gave my first wife a tattoo of a star on the bottom of her foot when she was 14 years old in his trailer home. So that was my first introduction to Limp Bizkit.

Laura Jane Grace

The idea of Ryley Walker not ever listening to Leonard Cohen is like me going out to dinner and them telling me that they've never had spaghetti or whatever.

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I'm a musician and I listen to music all the time. If there's something out there where someone would tell me that I should listen to, I would listen to it.

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I just want to play shows and write songs and make music. That's what feels good.

Laura Jane Grace

The period of time between when you're done with a record and when you start touring is the worst period of a time in a musician's life.

Laura Jane Grace

I've been keeping tour journals since I was 17 years old.

Laura Jane Grace