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.

I think you just have to take the bad with the good and you're going to get hurt more, but it's worth it.

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

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.

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

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.

When I'm writing, which is 8-9 months out of the year, I'm in a concerted writing pace, where I work 5 days a week for at least a few hours a day, maybe a little bit more. But I won't work for more than 2 hours at a time. I'll work for a couple hours and take a break.