137 Quotes by John Grant

My music is definitely very personal. The songs are about moments, snapshots of everyday life, and about having one's say, or at least feeling like one has had one's say.

I don't cry easily.

When I was young, people were so disgusted by me. Before I even knew that I was gay... everybody else had it figured out and, you know, they were letting you know.

I just felt that I was going to fall apart if I didn't learn to be myself.

I spend a lot of my time just looking at words and grammar and writing things down that I don't know.

I think the thing that I find the most difficult to talk about is religion.

I could have easily said that I don't believe in anything when I came out of the upbringing that I had, but I do still believe that there is something there, and I have a difficult time figuring it out. I suppose I don't want to be thought of as stupid or unintelligent because I believe that there's something out there bigger than us in the world.

I'm a seriously flawed individual, but I guess everybody is.

I was so ashamed of who I was. And I also felt like an outcast in gay society as well because I wasn't good-looking enough; my body wasn't good enough.