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I seem to be very attracted to strong female personalities in acting and music.

I believe humans have a soul that continues to exist after they die, but I don't know what form that will take.

John Grant

I suppose my ideal brain food is learning languages.

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When I got into languages, I needed to amass things to make myself more palatable or more acceptable as a human.

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The lion's share of what I listened to in the Eighties, what really affected me, was coming from Britain.

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Madeline Kahn is one of my favourite people in the entire world and one of the funniest. She was a talented Broadway star and also sang opera.

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The only difficult thing is learning to recognise the interesting bits from those millions of moments life provides you with every day and writing down those snippets.

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If I'm honest, I suppose there's something I don't want people to see in my eyes. They really are the window to the soul.

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Do you know the solo at the end of 'Why Don't You Love Me Any More?' that sounds like a chainsaw breaking through? That is what I can't do with my voice. That's when you hear how painful this has been to me.

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The most horrifying thing I ever did was work as a steward on an airplane. I wanted to get hired by United. I thought, 'With my languages, this will be amazing; I will work in First Class.' But I could only get a job with an airline going from Newark, New Jersey to Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

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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.

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I don't let the computer into my bedroom. It would get in the way of life, sleep. And I really can't let that happen.

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For me, every single thing I do seems to be about the process of letting go because that's what I so desperately need to do with so many things: with fear, with what people think of me, and all these things I've worried about my whole life.

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I'm very proud that I have learned German and Russian. Especially Russian, because of how difficult and beautiful it is and because of how much I struggled in the beginning to get my head around how it works.

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I really do feel like music is the only thing that I can do.

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Sometimes I wish I was one of those artists like David Bowie. They're not putting their private lives out there; it's about show and entertainment. But an alter ego is very dangerous for me. Because I am the guy who will become lost in that.

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I just feel like this guy who's visiting the music business over the weekend. Every time I write a song, I feel like it's never going to happen again.

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In my family, I was loved, but only if I would fight this gay thing and not let it take over me. I would be loved unconditionally if I could be cured of my 'sickness,' but it certainly would not be OK if I couldn't.

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

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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.

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I don't cry easily.

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People have always painted me like a pessimist, like somebody who sees the glass half-empty. But I think the fact that I keep showing up and saying, 'No, there must be a way for me to live in this world,' that shows I'm an eternal optimist.

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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.

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It really was an amazing thing when Midlake brought me down to Texas and created an atmosphere in which I felt really safe and was able to do whatever I wanted artistically.

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Me becoming a person, instead of somebody who just hides and is afraid, has happened in tandem with me learning to write music and become a good songwriter.

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I have trouble with things like Facebook. It presents such a warped vision. I get sick of people's opinions about every little thing and this warped view that everyone is as happy as a pig in garbage.

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

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There's a lot of anger in 'Queen of Denmark,' and that's me getting political.

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I'm quite gregarious. But when it comes to relationships, I mean, I'm no good at it. I suck at it. And people say I'm way too hard on myself, but I always feel like somebody else is going to say it if I don't. Why not just beat them to the punch so it doesn't hurt so much?

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When I came out, I found I hadn't been born with the right genes. It's quite brutal. If you're beautiful and you have the right genes, then the gay scene is a place where you can be worshipped. But if you don't, it's a different ball of wax.

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The snappier lyrics come when I'm feeling really good and up. A lot of times, they come after I've just had a meeting with somebody that was uplifting, and you get home, and you're feeling playful or upbeat or whatever, and then they just seem to pop right out.

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If I had a good scream, like Frank Black, I'd be doing punk music, 'cos I love that.

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I feel like, every single decision I make and every single album I make, it's all about letting go. Letting go of the past and just getting on with it.

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I can't allow myself to censor myself.

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I spent many years trying to fit in and do things the way I thought I was supposed to - trying to be perceived the way I thought people wanted to see me. I grew up in a very religious household and wasn't taught to feel comfortable or good about my sexuality, so it feels great to be able to say things the way I want to say them.

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I do feel I have a hard time dealing with things being OK.

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It's not like we wanted to talk about the fact that we're gay all the time, but the world has forced it to be an issue.

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