Yeah, we appreciate our women followng...and I love women. I mean, I just really love women. I love men, too, but you know it's like sometimes you look up from what you're doing and you go, 'I love women.' There's just something about them and so, just celebrate it.

People that are much younger in areas that are much more, kind of, disenfranchised, I guess, as far as the gay movement goes, they still have a language that they've discovered around things. And they have a vocabulary to use, and they have a way to express themselves even when they're not accepted.

I sit down and draw from my lyric book. I sit down and start looking through it and see if there is anything that strikes me that I've written.

But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have to work on your songwriting and you have to work on being able to play in front of people, I think. That performance is how you create the groundwork for a lasting career.

It's important to have a voice; it's more important to use it.

Your actions will follow you full circle round,the higher the leap, I said, the harder the ground!

You can spend time self-identifying and figuring out what you are on that, but at some point, you just want to be who you are and not walk around telling people.