I don't know [whether] if I didn't get paid, or my career didn't keep going where it goes, if I would keep doing music.

In this day and age of social media, where everything is so centred around how many Instagram and Twitter followers you have, what's keeping me afloat is the fact that my live performance is something that people can enjoy.

I write a lot. I used to write a lot of poetry when I was younger, write for my school newspapers. Also reading is very important because you need to be on your word game if you want to be a lyricist.

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 started making music for fun maybe my senior year in college. I started rapping in high school, but it wasn't anything serious.

I don't know [whether] if I didn't get paid, or my career didn't keep going where it goes, if I would keep doing music.

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.