The songs are always drawn from personal experience; I'm putting myself into my music. I usually am playing myself. It's art, art that represents my life.

The songs are always drawn from personal experience; I'm putting myself into my music. I usually am playing myself. It's art, art that represents my life.

When people have expectations, you're going to make a lot of them upset - when in fact I'm not trying to represent anybody but myself.

Definitely 99% of the hate I get is from other gay people.

I'm a sensitive guy, and I'm already one of my harshest critics, so if other people are hard on me, it just amplifies how hard I already am on myself.

I want to make honest music and tell honest stories that hopefully reflect the thoughts and feelings other people have.

I did a handful of photo shoots and I never made any money for it just because I was trying to build a portfolio. I decided that that's not what I wanted to do.