Maybe our gender is one thing and our sexuality is another. And that's a cool thing I think.

Music is such a good way to resist. It keep you strong, it has dignity.

When I do solo stuff, when I do anything involving music, it's very collaborative.

Oh God, it's such a big world right now for artists. There are as many possibilities as you can have time for, getting your music out there with the internet, and Youtube, Vimeo, Facebook, and everything that you have, there is a way to spread the word. To me, the first thing you have to have is substance and content and real depth.

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.

If you're a teacher, for instance, there are ways to have positive representation of gay people in the classroom. Making sure that, historically, people are noted and archived, and that kids are getting just positive images of people who are gay.

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.