Laura Jane Grace Quotes

Grammys, American Music Awards, successful albums, I'd pick my kids any day over any of it.

I've dated a couple of guys who were awesome, and the celebrity part of my life and the traveling part are hard to get around. You never get to see each other, especially if you're both musicians.

I would be ready to become a dad if I was with the right person. I'd like a boy, though. Because they're in charge.

After raising twins, you get organized.

I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth.

It's superfun being a mom, but it's hard too.

Everybody wants to have a partner; everybody would love to have a family, and for trans people, sometimes that can be extraordinarily difficult to do.

Every man plays many roles. So far, I have played father the best.

It was never something that I thought put me in a good light, that I was a working mom.

It was actually having a son made me think about feminism.

Now we've got a little daughter; me and the missus won't talk about football as much.

It took a while for me to figure out how it all fit in, being a mother and being a woman and being a rock singer.

My kids know who I am on the basketball court, but at the end of the day, it doesn't matter about the basketball. I am their dad, and that is all that matters.

I'm a producer, I'm a mom, a friend.

Everybody knows the competing identities of people who have kids.

Parenting changes your life, it changes how you hear yourself in relationship to others - which is part of the reason that a bunch of people in the rock community are sick of the goodwill and positive energy and love between these 45-year-old musicians who they preferred when they were 25 and taking stabs at each other.

I do see myself settling down, getting married and having kids. But when I think about a family life in the future there's rarely a man involved which is kind of weird.

Actually, my friendships are changing because my friends have kids, so that's a new aspect to the material. Not just that I don't want to have kids, it's that I'm having a hard time relating to people I know.

If you're changing diapers and going to the playground, any ambitions of being a cool guy have to fly out the window.

It is one thing to be a man's wife - quite another to be the mother of his children. In fact, once you become a mother, being a wife seems like a game you once played or a self-help book you were overly impressed with as a teenager that on second reading is puffy with common ideas. This was one of the many things I had learned since crossing over into the middle place - that sliver of time when childhood and parenthood overlap.

Training for the Olympics was much easier than balancing my life now! When practice was over, there was time for me. But with four kids and a career, I have no downtime. When I'm not on the road, I finish my workday at 2:30 p.m. Then I pick the kids up from school and they get 100 percent Mommy, not part Mommy and part Mary Lou Retton.

I used to go out with actresses and other female impersonators.

Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!

You know what I mean. I'm telling you I was stupid over it. I thought it was about trying so hard to survive that you didn't have the time to be a good parent. Obviously, that's not it. Because you and I, we're both...wealthy in love.

We're not just somebody's girlfriend who smiles all the time and bakes cookies and always has lingerie ready and their hair done. That's not real. The roles that I play are about bringing as much reality into it as possible.