John Grant Quotes

You can't censor people's dreams.

I'm free. I'm free to say what I feel.

I can't censor myself; it's really important for me to say how I feel.

I would love it if every talk show let me say whatever I pleased.

I will never censor myself to please anyone.

People will say what they want to say, in the way they want to.

Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.

You know, I'm speaking for myself. I didn't like to have to speak filtering for what I thought somebody else would or wouldn't want me to say.

I'm used to being told what to say, but not what to think... that's usually left up to me.

All my life, I've had a fear of being told what to say, so I'm not telling people what to think. I'm encouraging them to say what they think.

I can be stupid in my lyrics or say whatever I want without having to worry about anybody else's feeling or anybody being embarrassed by it or anything like that.

If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.

We should all have the opportunity to express what we want to express.

I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.

People can dress you the way they want, they can do your makeup the way they want, but they can never take away your voice.

The records are black boxes for me. Like, if you want to know who I am, my views, my perspective, things I love, things I hate, my convictions, my anthems. I've never let people's opinions affect the way I write.

Individuals will speak their minds, which I think is healthy.

If you deny people their own voice, you'll have no idea of who they were.

I don't feel restricted by the language: I feel more free.

I don't have a specific thing I want anyone to get out of anything I do.

I'm not a slave to fashion; I'm into exercising my individuality.

I give myself the luxury of saying what I want.

I can say whatever it is that I feel.

It's important to me that I should be free to express myself.

By limiting or denying freedom of speech and expression, we take away a lot of potential. We take away thoughts and ideas before they even have the opportunity to hatch. We build a world around negatives - you can't say, think, or do this or that.