I certainly think that my music is a response to my experience as a person who doesn't identify as straight, as a person who grew up American.

The idea of the gay experience, it feels like a relic. I felt like in the '90s when we were watching the gay characters on ‘The Real World,' there was definitely a gay experience that was distinct from a straight experience. If you talk to high schoolers in 2017, I don't know that is as much a part of how they experience a social dynamic.

I've always had a complex relationship towards my identity as an American.

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