A biography for Laura Jane Gracehasn’t been written yet.
“Going on tour for 10 years straight and playing 200-plus shows a year, you can't ever come back from that mentally. You're twisted in a weird way where you need that in order to be a person still.”
“If I want someone to recognize the gender identity I feel, I'd have to ask for that. I can't assume people will know how I'd like to be treated on their own.”
“Trying to cause chaos - I think that's the way I create change.”
“I think that on paper we did make so many of the classic mistakes that a punk band makes, signing to a major label, getting in business with the wrong people, stuff like that.”
“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.”
“Being able to write about love through a trans lens is something that's not really represented when it comes to love songs.”
“It would be weird enough just being in a band trying to date. It makes it harder being a parent. And it makes it really interesting when you're trans.”
“As technology and science advances, I think the ability to alter yourself should be embraced.”
“In a perfect world, in my opinion, 'they,' 'them,' and 'theirs' would be the pronouns that everyone would use.”
“I fear cops and have never felt the protection of them.”
“I want to be an involved parent in my daughter's life and do the things that other parents do, like go to the PTA meetings.”
“Saying to someone 'I'm a transsexual' is the most empowering thing I've ever felt in my whole life.”
“To know that the people who are singing along at your show actually have something in common with you and can identify with what you've gone through, makes the songs that much more meaningful to sing.”
“I've always wanted to be a writer, and I've kept journals since I was eight years old.”
“I never get to forget who I am, my gender identity.”
“I'd never have imagined it when I was younger. A trans woman on the cover of 'Time?' That is unfathomable to the 15-year-old me.”
“Fred Durst gave my first wife a tattoo of a star on the bottom of her foot when she was 14 years old in his trailer home. So that was my first introduction to Limp Bizkit.”
“My father was stationed in Italy in the military. I had no one to feed me what was cool, so I was into Guns N' Roses and New Kids on the Block and MC Hammer and a lot of '80s hair bands. But I was never into Motley Crue, they never stuck with me.”
“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.”
“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.”