Saying to someone 'I'm a transsexual' is the most empowering thing I've ever felt in my whole life.

I want to be an involved parent in my daughter's life and do the things that other parents do, like go to the PTA meetings.

I dealt with depression for my whole life. That's not something that was caused by being trans.

That's one of the biggest fears a lot of trans people have if they decide to come out, that they're making themselves unlovable and that they'll never have a relationship again.

I had some real health complications with my HRT - hormone replacement therapy.

I've been keeping tour journals since I was 17 years old.

Maybe you don't know who a person is just based on the way they dress. I know that's a really simple thing you're supposed to be taught really young, but sometimes you can forget.

The period of time between when you're done with a record and when you start touring is the worst period of a time in a musician's life.

I just want to play shows and write songs and make music. That's what feels good.

I'm a musician and I listen to music all the time. If there's something out there where someone would tell me that I should listen to, I would listen to it.

The idea of Ryley Walker not ever listening to Leonard Cohen is like me going out to dinner and them telling me that they've never had spaghetti or whatever.

Fred Durst gave my first wife a tattoo of a star on the bottom of her foot when she was 14 years old in his trailer home. So that was my first introduction to Limp Bizkit.

I had definitely stopped watching MTV by 2000.

It would be weird enough just being in a band trying to date. It makes it harder being a parent. And it makes it really interesting when you're trans.

The key to being a great band that lasts is always going to be making sure you write really good songs and put on really good shows.

Hormone replacement therapy does not change or affect your voice. And I have no problem with my voice: I really like my singing voice, I don't feel any dysphoria with my talking voice.

My earliest memories are of dysphoria.

There were definitely songs in the past that were me dealing with living this gender dysphoria, and sometimes they were really direct and no one picked up on it - but oftentimes, they were more veiled in metaphor.

What I learned early on, is that it's not really fun to do things alone.

Striving to make music that empowers people as opposed to making them feel like they're being beaten down every single day is so important.

People don't have to understand a language to understand the emotion and sentiment behind a song.

I'm just me and if me being honest about who I am and putting myself out there in that way makes connections with people and helps people out, that's just repaying the favor of music because that's what music does for me.

I recognize that I'm in a band, and part of being in a band is doing interviews, and I do have a platform so I want to use that platform to talk about things that are real.

I've always wanted to be a writer, and I've kept journals since I was eight years old.