137 Quotes by John Grant

When I write my songs, I'm writing about the pain, the joy, and the ridiculousness of being a human.

When I reached my senior year in high school, I fell into a hole that took a couple of decades to get out of.

I don't feel like I'm writing music for gay people. I'm a gay man who is writing music about one tiny little experience of what it's like to be a human on this planet.

That inner narrative - the desire to understand the way I am - never really switches off.

I come from a position where it seems like I have an addictive quality to everything in my life.

I know I'm likeable, but living with me is different. Yes, I can be charming. That desire to please people and learning what to do to charm their socks off is something many of us do. But you get into a relationship, and the party's over at some point. They see the real you.

I've kept going to therapy to find out why my perspective is so skewered and why I'm filled with rage. It's so I can live in this world alongside these other people who seem to be what is desired and what the world wants.

The first 20 years had such a profound effect on me, I spent the next 20 dealing with them.

The lead character in 'Adaptation' is pretty much me but with more talent. Every time I watch 'Adaptation,' I feel very emotional because it makes me be kinder to myself and see the human situation a little more clearly.