Grant-Lee Phillips's Quotes

There's nothing more painful than something that's superficially upbeat but you can kind of tell behind it that there's a cynicism, or even a bitterness.

Being an actor is a much more structured life than being a musician.

I don't know how other bands play the same songs every night.

I don't like knowing what the next song is because that's what I'd think about during the number we're playing.

I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery.

I'm always keen to head to where the greatest gravitation pull is tugging me.

I've made a few albums in such an autonomous way; it often has been exhausting. It's almost difficult to enjoy the process when you take on so much.

Collaboration is much like a birth. The song that springs forth resembles each one of us to a degree, but it's the kind of thing that would never be born from just one of us sitting down with a guitar.

I played with the same band for years and years and there's a beauty to having one solid core that you keep exploring. On the other hand, it's nice to throw yourself in different situations where you find out things about your own resources.

Twins have a special bond. They feel safer with each other than with their peers.

Although there have been warnings that it was coming for years, the Alzheimer's epidemic is here now and millions more families will be touched by this progressive - and ultimately fatal - disease unless its course can be altered.

I believe if two people want to commit to each other, God bless 'em.

I don't think I'm a flaming radical.

I know my mother has always looked at strangers as friends.

I love my mother. I reach out to my mother.

I'm not a caregiver.

People who are angry at themselves sometimes blame others.

People who take more than their share usually feel an inflated sense of entitlement.

People who write to 'Dear Abby' don't always have the most earthshaking problems in the world.

You know you don't have to be the most popular kid in the school to have people acknowledge your presence.

I think everybody knows they have to be vigilant with their children. I don't have anything profound to say on that subject. We all know that we have to watch the children. The question is when does it become absolute paranoia?

I think the gay - the gay/straight alliances in the school are very useful as far as creating understanding among kids and so kids aren't necessarily so stigmatized or demonized for being who they really are.

I'm trying to tell kids if they are gay, it's OK to be gay. I've tried to tell families if they have a gay family member to accept them and love them as they always have.

Many people with physical disabilities have romantic lives and good marriages to partners who see past their disabilities and recognize all of the things they can do.

Women were once considered chattel, and slavery was regarded as sanctioned in the Bible. However, western society grew to recognize that neither was just.

You can be as devoted and loving a spouse or a caregiver or child, but you also have to remember that you have to program time for yourself in there, because it will renew you.