Quotes About Chaz

#1. I was never religious.

Chaz Bono

#2. It's considered bad form to laugh at your own jokes (especially when they're teensy ones), but some people are so engaging they never have to laugh alone. Chaz

Stephen King

#3. A lot of parents never speak to their transgender kids again; that's not the case in my family.

Chaz Bono

#4. Parking's expensive, so I walk or ride my bike, which is good because my girlfriend's getting her PhD as an environmental engineer.

Chaz Bundick

#5. Jesus Christ: A common exclamation indicating surprise, disgust, anger or bewilderment.

Chaz Bufe

#6. I've always thought that reviews and knowing how much your fans appreciate or don't like something, that's the sugar coating. I'm trying not to think about those things.

Chaz Bundick

#7. I'm a big fan of the artist Parra, and the way he draws naked women is really cool to see. It doesn't look perverted, it just looks really awesome.

Chaz Bundick

#8. I feel really good, I feel like a man now, and I'm really happy.

Chaz Bono

#9. I don't put categories on music, myself. So either people go with it or they don't, and sometimes the names sound a little silly.

Chaz Bundick

#10. Maybe one day I'll write my rock album so I can use more obscure references and just be weird. If the lyrics are too crazy, though, then it's not pop anymore.

Chaz Bundick

#11. People who don't have gender dysphoria aren't going to catch it by watching me dance on television.

Chaz Bono

#12. Obviously the transgender movement has not progressed in the way that the gay and lesbian movement has. But I'm an activist - that's just the kind of person I am.

Chaz Bono

#13. Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.

Chaz Bono

#14. I'm never drunk on the road, and since I've got to take care of my voice, smoke is definitely not allowed.

Chaz Bundick

#15. Once you move in with your significant other, you have to become a combination of each other.

Chaz Bundick

#16. What mom cares about most is that I'm happy, healthy and enjoying my life.

Chaz Bono

#17. Fears are not facts.

Chaz Bono

#18. A time-tested political tactic guaranteed to raise a president's popularity rating by at least 30 points. It is especially useful during election years and economic downturns.

Chaz Bufe

#19. Dreaming's shit, but dying's worse; and watching someone die, that comes somewhere between the two, I guess. It ain't good, but it's got to be better than the other thing, better than doing it yourself. Hasn't it?

Chaz Brenchley

#20. When we're discussing who to invite to a dinner party, my wife Chaz and I sometimes use the shorthand, 'good value for money,' which indicates guests expected to be entertaining.

Roger Ebert

#21. As you get older it's more confusing. Suddenly, there's more pressure to fit in to your assigned gender.

Chaz Bono

#22. Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid.

Chaz Bono

#23. It's really cool to be around people that are younger than you who are really cool with being open about stuff.

Chaz Bundick

#24. So when I was about 13 or 14, I realized I was attracted to women and then made the assumption that I was a lesbian, and didn't realize that that wasn't the case. It was the fact that I was a man and a heterosexual man. The issue wasn't my sexual orientation, but rather my gender identity.

Chaz Bono

#25. I wanted to show America a different kind of man. If there was someone like me when I was growing up, my whole life would have been different.

Chaz Bono

#26. Atheist n. A person to be pitied in that he is unable to believe things for which there is no evidence, and who has thus deprived himself of a convenient means of feeling superior to others.

Chaz Bufe

#27. I'm training myself to go back to the way I used to record before electronic programs.

Chaz Bundick

#28. When you transition, everyone kind of has to transition around you.

Chaz Bono

#29. It felt as if my body was, like, literally betraying me because I went from a very athletic, straight-up-and-down little kid to a very curvaceous woman, and it was just horrifying to me.

Chaz Bono

#30. I'm not worried about repeating myself - I'm more worried that I'd just get bored.

Chaz Bundick

#31. I don't do intoxicants on tour too often. It slows me down mentally, and it feels like killing brain cells.

Chaz Bundick

#32. When I was really little, it was very clear to me that I felt like a boy, and my friends were all boys.

Chaz Bono

#33. It's easy for people to mistake most musicians as living the easy life. It takes a while to get to that point. I'm sure it's like that for acting and television.

Chaz Bundick

#34. If I ever get some free time I end up thinking about what to make next. I don't pick up a guitar and start playing the songs I already know; I immediately try to write a riff.

Chaz Bundick

#35. Kids are starting to dress the same, listen to the same music. I look at their Tumblrs and they're all into the same things.

Chaz Bundick

#36. Erin and I spent four hours shopping for dresses and shoes Tuesday night. She was going all out in her intention to make Chaz regret any decision he'd made that didn't include worshipping at her feet.

Tammara Webber

#37. I don't think my lyrics go so well when I try to sound poetic. Some people do that really well. If I did that I'd feel like it wouldn't be genuine.

Chaz Bundick

#38. Electronic music is so weird because trends change so fast.

Chaz Bundick

#39. As a music listener, I'm becoming more and more ADD - like, "Eh, I'm bored with this". So who knows how long I'll be playing music.

Chaz Bundick

#40. I'm so bad at lyrics. I'm always trying to get better. Sometimes, the song can restrict your lyrics - if you're trying to make a poppy song, you don't want to sing something that sounds like it could be on an At the Drive-In song.

Chaz Bundick

#41. Let's go make Chaz wish he was never born."
"Oh, Erin. I'm so glad you 're on my side."
"Damn right, bitch.

Tammara Webber

#42. People will call you anything. It's up to you either to pick up the phone or not.

Chaz Guest

#43. I don't mind genre names. "Chillwave" is probably the last thing I would think of, but I don't mind it.

Chaz Bundick

#44. When I realised I was transgender I was so afraid of what my transition would do to everyone else in my life and how they would react to it and would I be rejected?

Chaz Bono

#45. I always felt like the male from the time I was a child. There wasn't much feminine about me.

Chaz Bono

#46. I thought, transgender people are much worse off than I am. That's why they're willing to risk everything to be who they are. But the older I got, the harder it got to stay in my body.

Chaz Bono

#47. I feel so much more comfortable that I've ever been. I've felt male as far back as I can remember.

Chaz Bono

#48. Deep down, my mom had long suspected I was gay ... Much of her anger and hurt came from her sense of betrayal that she was the last to be told.

Chaz Bono

#49. There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are in alignment. For transgender people, they're mismatched. That's all it is. It's not complicated, it's not a neurosis. It's a mix-up. It's a birth defect, like a cleft palate.

Chaz Bono

#50. I've been an activist in the LGBT community for a long time. I think nothing's changed, I'm just a little bit more focused on the 'T' now than I was on the 'L' or the 'G.'

Chaz Bono

#51. I absolutely believe in assimilation. I don't believe I'm any different from straight people. My wants and needs are the same as theirs. I don't look at sexual orientation as that big of a deal. It's just an orientation.

Chaz Bono

#52. Being self-supporting is important to me.

Chaz Bono

#53. I just want to let you know that when I look into my future, I see nothing but you." That's what Chaz had whispered in my ear at some point during the wedding last night.
Then he'd whispered. "And you're not even wearing Spanx.

Meg Cabot

#54. I had felt uncomfortable as a woman my whole life.

Chaz Bono

#55. I confused gender identity with sexual orientation. Your gender identity is about who you are, how you feel, the sex that you feel yourself to be. Sexual orientation is who you're attracted to.

Chaz Bono

#56. I always wanted to shave. It is a very natural process. For my birthday I got a lot of shaving stuff.

Chaz Bono

#57. I'm just a regular guy. All these ideas that children shouldn't watch me, I'm going to be confusing, all this stuff, it's crazy.

Chaz Bono

#58. I don't know if watching Chaz Bono will turn your kids into transsexuals, but I'm pretty sure that letting them watch Keith Ablow will turn them into assholes

Lewis Black

#59. I've waited my whole life to be able to have body hair - but I never thought I'd have back hair. But what are you going to do, right?

Chaz Bono

#60. It really bothers me when I see people doing my mother in drag. I mean, just imagine if you saw people doing that with your mother.

Chaz Bono

#61. I felt like one of the boys. My friends were boys. In school I related to boys.

Chaz Bono

#62. Until I really accepted this about myself and got over any of my own transphobia that I had, I really felt like I wouldn't be accepted. I thought I would ruin my life.

Chaz Bono

#63. Not all of my songs are electronic, they're not house or dancey.

Chaz Bundick

#64. I am deeply honored to be making 'Life Itself,' a documentary on the life of Roger Ebert, and to have had the full cooperation and enthusiasm of Roger and his wife, Chaz.

Steve James

#65. I've been embraced by a new community. That's what happens when you're finally honest about who you are; you find others like you.

Chaz Bono

#66. For me, it was never a question of whether or not I was transgender. It was a question of what I'd be able to handle transitioning and having to do it in the public eye. One of the issues that was hard for me to overcome was the fear of that.

Chaz Bono

#67. In school I related to boys.

Chaz Bono

#68. Pop music is awesome, but I like to keep changing it up.

Chaz Bundick

#69. I always had this idea that, 'Sure, I wished I was a boy and felt more like a boy and all of that.' But I wasn't, so I would deal with it. And I for some reason thought there were other lesbians that felt that way and that was just part of that community.

Chaz Bono

#70. I see a lot of people of color in my fanbase and at all my shows, and it's really awesome.

Chaz Bundick

#71. Around 2001, I started analyzing lesbians. I started to realize that even really butch-acting or -dressing women still had a strong female identity that I never had.

Chaz Bono

#72. When it comes to music, I'm definitely thinking [about] what I would like to hear.

Chaz Bundick

#73. I don't have the luxury of doing things privately.

Chaz Bono

#74. I like to challenge myself, to see if I can actually write a pop album that people can connect with lyrically. Musically, it's very accessible - or, at least, I hope so.

Chaz Bundick

#75. Don't fight against what you don't want, instead stand for the spiritual qualities you would like to manifest in your life and watch how the universe rushes to flesh out your intentions as new life experiences.

Chaz Day

#76. Listen: Common sense doesn't mean what it used to mean.
-Matthias Chalmers, STAIRWAY2 HEAVEN

Chaz Thompson

#77. Happy is measuring your life against the options and not wanting to change it. It's getting the best of a series of bargains, bad or otherwise.

Chaz Brenchley

#78. I'm a little bit scared of re-recording.

Chaz Bundick