Gay rights and body acceptance are two things I feel very passionately about. Mary Lambert Read Quote
After singing ‘Same Love’ across the nation, it’s given me faith that I’ve underestimated the straight world. Mary Lambert Read Quote
That’s why fame freaks me out in a lot of ways – because how genuine of a connection can you have when you’re a commodity, and a conversation with you means bragging rights? That’s terrifying to me. Mary Lambert Read Quote
I came out when I was 17. I was in the church; I was crying every Sunday for about a year. I came to terms with the fact with this is who I was – I wasn’t going to be able to be a different person. At 17, you feel like a freak already, and so to have that fire and brimstone against your attraction is just screwed up! Mary Lambert Read Quote
It is a little scary to go across the whole country, and basically the world, and be like, ‘What’s up? I’m gay, and you should let me get married everywhere.’ I don’t feel like I’m a spokesperson. I just sing what my experience is. Mary Lambert Read Quote
There I am, chain-smoking and watching YouTube videos in my bedroom at 6 A.M. when a spoken-word video comes on the screen. I knew I had to do it: that it was another part of me that needed to be explored. Mary Lambert Read Quote
You don’t accomplish a lot by changing people’s opinions by shoving facts down their throat. I think you change people’s opinions by opening your heart up and showing the parallels between you and another person. That’s how people’s ideas shift. Mary Lambert Read Quote
