Ben Hopkins

We're not writing songs to solve a cultural problem. The goal for us is to express what we're going through, and it's great if people find commonality in that. ”

I want to say that our shows are safer-spaces shows. Don't push anyone or affect anyone's space. ”

What we do is provide a suggestion. We say, 'We're queer. We're going to do this; we're going to open up the space to queer thought.' People don't have to show up, but they do. ”

Creating a safe space at our shows isn't encouraging anything. It's just saying thank you. ”

As a white queer person of a certain degree of economic privilege, I think that my ability to pass as straight is a privilege that other folk I know don't have. It's important to keep in mind who really is in the most trouble and to direct our attention to assisting those people. ”

For queer people, the personal is very political, just to talk about it in a public space. It's very political just to come out and take up that space and be like, 'This is my narrative. It's not an outsider narrative, and it's not a fetish narrative; it's just my story, and it's worth being told and listened to.' ”

For me, choosing to perform in drag, because of all the things I enjoy about it, is a political act. ”

When I started playing music, I was more of a character. Now I'm just me with a cool outfit on. I'm more comfortable being myself. ”

Drag has always made me feel less scared. ”

Queer is invincible because people have tried everything - haven't they? What haven't they tried to do to queer people? And horrible things happened. But you never stop, because it's the truth of who you are. ”