Quotes from 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 brain, so that's what a show is. I play a show and that's a high for me; I can ride that.

When I was fourteen years old, I got arrested for battering an officer and resisting arrest with violence. I was beat up by the cops and they charged me with that. There was no original arresting charge.

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

Growing up, I never had a role model to show me that you can be trans and live a happy life. I hope that I can be that source of hope for someone out there who's struggling.

You know, sexism in the punk scene - or just in rock and roll in general - is so easily demonstrated by the amount of women or queer people that you see on stage versus the amount of cis males that you see on stage.

I like the idea that the body is a vessel, that it's not necessarily representative of the real you that's inside of it.

Trans people should be able to fall in love and sing love songs too, and have that be just as valid. You turn on the radio and every other song is some guy singing about some girl who broke his heart, or vice versa. And there's not a lot of trans representation with that.

My favorite video game when I was a kid was this game called 'Metroid' and the main character of 'Metroid' was Samus. Samus has this body armor suit, helmet and everything except at the end of the game, the helmet comes off and it was revealed that Samus was actually a woman.

I was always attracted to women.

My earliest memories are of dysphoria.

As technology and science advances, I think the ability to alter yourself should be embraced.

Saying to someone 'I'm a transsexual' is the most empowering thing I've ever felt in my whole life.

Any way that I can use my career or my platform to push along transgender visibility in the mainstream and society serves me on a personal level in that it will make day-to-day existence when I'm not doing this that much easier.

I guess I've been existing in my own head a lot.

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

Being able to write about love through a trans lens is something that's not really represented when it comes to love songs.