American - Musician | July 25, 1968 -
I've kept most of my friends for decades, and I continue to make new friends.
John Grant
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I'm angry because I was so scared for so many years about just being myself.
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I love a lot of different styles, but my heart belongs in electronic music.
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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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There's an incredible amount of pain involved in being a human, but this humorous stuff is essential in overcoming it.
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When I reached my senior year in high school, I fell into a hole that took a couple of decades to get out of.
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I spend a lot of my time just looking at words and grammar and writing things down that I don't know.
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My mother was a very sweet soul and a beautiful person, but she had a lot of fear.
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I'm not saying that I don't have skills. I'm saying I don't feel like I can use my skills to achieve self-esteem. I feel like it's cheating. I think that I should have self-esteem simply because I am a human being who deserves love and deserves everything just as much or just as little as everyone else.
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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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Icelanders love to speak English. Their English is a joy to hear because of how colloquial and idiomatic it is, but they appreciate your efforts with Icelandic.
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Being in school, whenever I laughed or smiled, I would turn to find someone staring at me with this terrible hatred and disgust. I had to control everything - control my voice, control my facial expressions, control my hair and my clothes, and where I walked and where I sat - at every moment. I think that drove me to terrible anxiety.
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