I don't think it's completely better. I still have to do annoying things sometimes and explain things that I don't feel I have to [about LGBT].

Now I'm in the business and I do have to have these awkward conversations about how I look, how I talk. But I'm still here.

I'm a lot different in my career since that interview. To have someone like Diplo tweet "Cakes' album is really cool" is cool, but in the same breath I still like what I do without anyone's approval. It's still good music.

I am a rapper. The reason why I was against the whole rapper title is because I know so many people who want to be rappers and they're not.

Living New York, everyone has a million hustles, so I was doing party promoting, working the doors at parties, doing that whole nightlife thing.

I think it's very important that LGBT narratives are spoken from LGBT perspectives. I think that what I do is important as far as creating a lane for myself to be independent.

I was doing my music because it was fun, and I always was like, "If it becomes a business, or it becomes too demanding, or if people try to tell me what to do or control what I'm doing, I won't do it."