Laura Jane Grace

It would be weird enough just being in a band trying to date. It makes it harder being a parent. And it…

— Laura Jane Grace

To me, the songs that I'm most thankful to have been a part of creating are the songs that are able to…

— Laura Jane Grace

Any way that I can use my career or my platform to push along transgender visibility in the mainstream and society serves…

— Laura Jane Grace

The key to being a great band that lasts is always going to be making sure you write really good songs and…

— Laura Jane Grace

I don't want to be just that transgender performer or that transgender musical artist. I want to create songs and art and…

— Laura Jane Grace

To know that the people who are singing along at your show actually have something in common with you and can identify…

— Laura Jane Grace

I'm just me and if me being honest about who I am and putting myself out there in that way makes connections…

— Laura Jane Grace

When I was fourteen years old, I got arrested for battering an officer and resisting arrest with violence. I was beat up…

— Laura Jane Grace

As a trans person, I don't feel welcome in most public spaces. Especially now with Trump, I don't feel faith or recognize…

— Laura Jane Grace

I'm totally fine with myself. It's the other people I run into out there who are so hung up on gender. The…

— Laura Jane Grace

Any doctor will tell you a great treatment for depression is exercise, physical exertion, that it really ups the dopamine in your…

— Laura Jane Grace

My whole identity is not gender. My whole identity is not talking about gender. There are so many other things in my…

— Laura Jane Grace

Going on tour for 10 years straight and playing 200-plus shows a year, you can't ever come back from that mentally. You're…

— Laura Jane Grace

Every artist has the song where they say, 'I wish I could have written a song as good as this,' but they…

— Laura Jane Grace

Growing up, my experience with transsexualism was nothing but shame. It was something very hidden, and dealt with very privately.

— Laura Jane Grace

I'm a musician and I listen to music all the time. If there's something out there where someone would tell me that…

— Laura Jane Grace

The idea of Ryley Walker not ever listening to Leonard Cohen is like me going out to dinner and them telling me…

— Laura Jane Grace

When I was 19 or 20, the way I was an activist was by regularly meeting with groups, going to protests, and…

— Laura Jane Grace

I was married for like seven, eight years. And then coming out of that I was like, 'Okay, now what? I guess…

— Laura Jane Grace

I'd never have imagined it when I was younger. A trans woman on the cover of 'Time?' That is unfathomable to the…

— Laura Jane Grace

The period of time between when you're done with a record and when you start touring is the worst period of a…

— Laura Jane Grace

For most people who are transitioning, surgery isn't really a financial reality. So to place these goals of 'in order to be…

— Laura Jane Grace

Hormone replacement therapy does not change or affect your voice. And I have no problem with my voice: I really like my…

— Laura Jane Grace

Musicians are kind of like pirates, you know? You have to be free to follow whatever your muse is, or wherever life…

— Laura Jane Grace

What people don't realize when they talk about our lineup changes is that the original Against Me! broke up in 2001. It…

— Laura Jane Grace

Striving to make music that empowers people as opposed to making them feel like they're being beaten down every single day is…

— Laura Jane Grace