It's really important for me to live purposefully, and I feel that way putting music out in the world and having people connect with it. That means everything to me.

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

I'd rather have a lot of little donations than a couple big ones. That shows that people care and are giving what they can.

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.

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.

People don't like what I represent, and they think I'm trying to represent the whole gay community just because I'm a gay person and I make music. By default I'm supposed to represent a whole community? I think that's ridiculous.

What puts my mind at rest is knowing I'm a person of integrity. I really do stand for what I say I stand for. I'm real!