John Grant Quotes

I always tell people that I'll sound exactly like Alanis Morissette after I've had more boyfriends. I'll be just as anguished-sounding.

Do you know what it's like to love and be alone?

I'm afraid love may not exist the way I want it to.

I've got tooth marks on my heart.

In regards to your love life, you're just entering into a whole of pain if you talk about it. If you've never said anything, there are no sound bites to haunt you when you're crying into a box of Kleenex after it all goes wrong.

I've been dumped hard. My heart has been broken and shattered, and I've also been on the other end of that too.

There is so much hurt in this game of searching for a mate, of testing, trying. And you realize suddenly that you forgot it was a game, and turn away in tears.

All my lyrics are about my love life or the lack thereof.

I want to write music based on my life, my past experiences and heartbreaks.

Obviously, I've been heartbroken. We all know what that feels like.

To me, the best writing points to something literal or common but is also nuanced: The moment when somebody is telling you they love you while simultaneously disappointing you. Everybody's experienced that.

I often liken my love life to the pathetic fallacy found in a Bronte novel: a long and winding road tented by storm clouds and rain. Kidding.

I remember thinking that writing love songs was stupid and cliche, and that my job was to not write love songs, because there are enough of them.

When somebody's in love with you, they think it's amazing you've written them a poem, and when they don't love you anymore, they hate those poems. They wish those poems would go away.

I experienced unrequited love early.

You know that first love that leaves you? You never forget that, especially if you're a songwriter. I must have gotten nine songs out of that girl.

I have experienced heartbreak but not in a classical sense.

A lot of my songs are about loneliness and losing relationships. Even the ones that are happy, there's a lonely undertone to them.

Being dumped sucks, period.

I'm always attracted to the hottest boy in the room and that never works out.

I've never been dumped, but I'm sure it will happen.

Girls rejected me a lot.

I've never written a happy love song.

You're in this heightened emotional state from the beginning of the play. It's like when you first have your heart broken.

I remember, as a kid, my first breakup at 14 years old, I was jamming to Toni Braxton trying to heal out here. Why did an angel break my heart? Hell, I don't know.