It's a really subtle kind of thing. It makes me feel like Randy Harrison is not a human being to them.

I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.

I don't want to be Tom Cruise. I'm not after some movie blockbuster career. That's not the kind of work I'm interested in. And frankly, it's not the kind of work I'm ever going to get.

By the time I came out, that kind of stopped it. The bullying stopped when I claimed myself and proved that I wasn't afraid. A lot of it was when I was hiding when I was younger.

Storytelling with music is a really powerful device.

I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.

I can't walk down the street with my head up. I'm not a hat wearer, but now I'm a hat wearer.