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.

The only thing I have going on at a personal level is just the way I knew I was gay and I knew what that meant inside me, but the gender aspect of who I am came later.

But the reality is that we are a folk band.

Your hatred is rooted in your fear, and your paranoia and insecurities, well they don't belong here.

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.

You just have to let yourself go and not be worried about what other people are going to say or the things that might come out...Just jump right in full force and be as silly and stupid and adolescent and introspective as you want to be.

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