Laura Jane Grace Quotes

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Laura Jane Grace

Profession : Musician

Birth : November 8, 1980

I turned to punk because I didn't fit in anywhere else.

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I have gender dysphoria and body dysmorphia. I don't like to see pictures of myself.

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My least favorite thing about being in a band is photo shoots and video shoots. I like writing songs.

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I sleep with a notebook next to me, and most nights I sleep with my guitar next to me.

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To know that the people who are singing along at your show actually have something in common with you and can identify with what you've gone through, makes the songs that much more meaningful to sing.

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I grew up with a mother who always had every fashion magazine stacked up on the side of her bed. When I was really young, I'd lie in bed with her, and we'd look at the magazines.

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My whole identity is not gender. My whole identity is not talking about gender. There are so many other things in my life that are fulfilling that I like to think about too.

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Trans people should be able to fall in love and sing love songs too, and have that be just as valid. You turn on the radio and every other song is some guy singing about some girl who broke his heart, or vice versa. And there's not a lot of trans representation with that.

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I was married for like seven, eight years. And then coming out of that I was like, 'Okay, now what? I guess I would like to date? That's a reasonable thing. I'm allowed to have that!'

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If you look at the difference between the first Clash record and 'Combat Rock,' what an evolution.

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It's not like I came out in 'Rolling Stone' and all of a sudden I had a closet full of all the clothes I want.

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Two Coffins' is a song I wrote for my daughter.

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What people don't realize when they talk about our lineup changes is that the original Against Me! broke up in 2001. It never recorded a full-length record.

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When I was fourteen years old, I got arrested for battering an officer and resisting arrest with violence. I was beat up by the cops and they charged me with that. There was no original arresting charge.

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Living in Italy meant growing up without MTV.

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I just always knew that's what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician. I never had any doubts.

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Any way that I can use my career or my platform to push along transgender visibility in the mainstream and society serves me on a personal level in that it will make day-to-day existence when I'm not doing this that much easier.

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At 20, I was married, working as an auto mechanic, and living in Gainesville. I was doing Against Me!, but it wasn't by any means a full-time gig.

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My father was stationed in Italy in the military. I had no one to feed me what was cool, so I was into Guns N' Roses and New Kids on the Block and MC Hammer and a lot of '80s hair bands. But I was never into Motley Crue, they never stuck with me.

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