There Is No Shame Like Poor Shame.

I Always Was Really Confident About Myself, About My Voice, Myself As A Person, My Body, All Of Those Things, But As A Songwriter - I Just Didn't Identify As A Songwriter At All.

I've Had People Ask Me In Interviews What It's Like To Have Money, But That's Not How It Is. I Have A Middle-class Life. I Have A Room In London But Not A House, Nor A Bmw.

You Know How People Love To Glamorize Poverty? There's Nothing Glamorous About It. But It Did Make Me Really Creative. Those Days, I Was Literally Taking T-shirts In The Day And Sewing Them Back Together To Make Dresses For The Night.

We Had So Many Milestones In America. We Were On Our Way To Universal Healthcare. We Had Gay Marriage. We Were Talking About Gender Fluidity And Trans Issues Openly And Discussing Them With Respect. It Was Almost To The Point Where Educating People About Transgender Rights Wasn't An Issue. We Were Including Trans People As A Normal Part Of Our Conversations Instead Of Seeing Their Presence As This Shocking Thing To The System. We Forgot That Those Things Can Be Taken Away From You Because There Are People In The World That, For Whatever F - King Reason, Can't Live And Let Live.

We Were A Small Group Of Weirdos And Baby Punks And Gays And Free Spirits Who Had To Use Our Imaginations A Lot. We Only Saw Pictures And Read Zines, So We Could Only Interpret The Aesthetic And Message Of Punk Scenes Around The World. We Were Basically The Duck-billed Platypuses Of Punk.