In an interview about his role in Everybody's Talking About Jamie, John was asked about what his tattoos (that you could see from stage, that is) mean. He called out three: a quote from writer Hans Christian Andersen, an arrow, which is a nod to a quote from the documentary Paris Is Burning, and finally a line from Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, that reads: "unmarked waters and strange shores". "Someone thought it said "unloved shoe, untrained horse", so that's what I refer to it as now", he said in the interview.