Art Quote by Alan Bennett

I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I'm homosexual. In the way…

— Alan Bennett

My parents always saw me as an artist, and that greatly influenced me

— Meredith Brooks

I became a degenerate artist. My parents were shaped by their own experiences, and artists weren't so useful in the death camps.

— Art Spiegelman

I had my dysfunctions, but music gave me peace and joy. I never felt in tune with the world. My parents always saw me…

— Meredith Brooks

When I was growing up, I kept hoping that I wasn't really gay because I wanted to have children. I went through a long,…

— Andrew Solomon

I spent a lot of time denying the idea that I could be gay or trans to myself. From the ages of 14 to…

— Chelsea Manning

My brother's death picked up my life and put it down somewhere else. I had an image of myself in my mind as a…

— Yance Ford

I came out to my parents as gay, and then I realized, you know, four or five years later, that I wasn't really happy,…

— Candis Cayne

I was kind of a misfit, and when my mother died, I had to become an adult, something that I never thought I would…

— Martha Wainwright

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…

— John Grant

I was inadvertently raised in the 'gay community.' I had straight parents, but I spent massive amounts of time at a very early age…

— Darren Criss

When I was I younger I didn't want to be gay. Not because I was scared of the sexual thing; I didn't want to…

— Neil Tennant