I'm better at accepting the people who don't have nice things to say about me anonymously, but until you've experienced it, you don't understand how much it can affect you and mess with your mind.

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.

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

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.

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!

Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you.