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21 " Show spaces were supposed to be open to everyone regardless of age, race, class, sex, or sexual preference, but for the most part it was just white kids oblivious to the privilege they came from. It also became clear to me that while these were the politics heralded by the scene, often they were not actually practiced. "
― Laura Jane Grace , Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout
22 " I don’t want to see the world that way anymore, I don’t want to feel that weak and insecure. As if you were my fucking pimp, as if I was your fucking whore. Black me out. "
23 " I was a teenage anarchist, but then the scene got too rigid. It was a mob mentality, they set their rifle sights on me. Narrow visions of autonomy, you want me to surrender my identity. I was a teenage anarchist, the revolution was a lie! "
24 " I aimed to take my guitar, travel the world with it, and reclaim rock and roll, city by city. So I came up with a title and wrote it in the bottom corner of the cover. Against Me! Is Reinventing Axl Rose. "
25 " Gender is a spectrum,” she told me. “Don’t worry about trying to fit into someone else’s box they made for you. "
26 " It was a human skull I’d bought from an antique dealer. I could think of no gift with more finality. I hoped whenever she saw it, it would remind her of the eternal love I felt for her, that underneath gender constructs—the skin and thread, stitches and ligaments—we are all just bones in a box. "
27 " Pope was only 26 years years old and now he’s dead and there’s nothing any of us can do about it. All he did was break his fucking foot, he wasn’t supposed to die when we left him in Dallas. He was supposed to have surgery, get his cast, and be back out on the road with us by summer. It was the insurance-provided assisted living doctors that killed him. They told him he was schizophrenic. Started feeding him psychiatric drugs. They over-medicated him. Too many pills. His bbody couldn’t take it. He wasn’t crazy. He just wasn’t meant for Texas. They won’t release any of his records to us, only to family. Pope didn’t have much family left, just his older brother and grandmother. He told us all his parents were dead. It wasn’t until after Pope died we found out his father was still alive. None of them are going to chase this. I feel responsible. We left him. It wasn’t supposed to be a big deal. It was just a broken foot, a busted ankle. Heather had been talking to him while he was in the hospital. He told him to come stay with us. He was incoherent whenever I’d hear from him. It was like you could tell the drugs were kicking in. I was too self-obsessed to care, too focused on my failing career. Too busy being full of shit and uninspired. To fucking original. So fucking wasted. It’s a rare thing to meet someone out on the road that you connect with. It’s such a rare and beautiful thing to find a true friend out there on the road. I failed him. Pope, I’m sorry, so very sorry. "
― Laura Jane Grace
28 " Eternal Cowboy was the start of an era for Against Me!. It was recorded at Ardent Studios in Memphis, Tennessee, a location I chose because I was on a Replacements kick at the time and wanted to do it at the same place they had recorded my favorite album, Pleased to Meet Me. "
29 " This is our space, this is real. Fuck stages and division between band and audience. Fuck rock stars and bands with bumper stickers, websites, and $12 ticket prices. "
30 " There was a little sexual tension between us too... I thought he might have a crush on me... I thought Kevin maybe wanted to fuck me. I maybe wanted to fuck Kevin too. This was confusing because we both liked girls, it made me wonder if I was gay. "
