Kayfabe is kind of a code. To break kayfabe is to let people know that the punch was not real and that the match was scripted.

North Carolina was on the vanguard of being for [ trans rights ], and that's why we're seeing this push back. The conservatives noticed that there had been a lot of progress and they tried to tamp it down.

Giving up and doing something else (nursing, for me) was exactly what eventually led me to making music that other people wanted to hear.

There are stylists I really love. I'm a huge Joan Didion fan - if I wrote something that she might like, then I'd feel very proud. I want the action to move as quickly as it does in A Book of Common Prayer, where one thing bonks right into another very quickly.

Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I dont feel everybody can connect to.

I wrote short stories when I was a teenager, but they weren't any good and I kinda knew it.

You learn to present dark things without including their ability to harm, treasuring them for what they are.