Being able to write about love through a trans lens is something that's not really represented when it comes to love songs.

I'm totally fine with myself. It's the other people I run into out there who are so hung up on gender. The way it trips them up is their problem, not mine.

Growing up, I never had a role model to show me that you can be trans and live a happy life. I hope that I can be that source of hope for someone out there who's struggling.

If I want someone to recognize the gender identity I feel, I'd have to ask for that. I can't assume people will know how I'd like to be treated on their own.

I was always attracted to women.

Society doesn't portray transsexual people in a very positive light.

My favorite video game when I was a kid was this game called 'Metroid' and the main character of 'Metroid' was Samus. Samus has this body armor suit, helmet and everything except at the end of the game, the helmet comes off and it was revealed that Samus was actually a woman.

I grew up in Italy, so for me, Naples pizza is the only type of pizza that there really is.

My first record I ever got was 'Full Moon Fever.' My dad gave me a copy when I was maybe nine years old or something. And I listened to the heck out of that record. I loved that record.

As a trans person, I don't feel welcome in most public spaces. Especially now with Trump, I don't feel faith or recognize that we're protected by the government or administration.

A lot of people don't perceive me as female or trans, they just see some rocker.

As technology and science advances, I think the ability to alter yourself should be embraced.

I'd never have imagined it when I was younger. A trans woman on the cover of 'Time?' That is unfathomable to the 15-year-old me.

I've never had trouble talking and expressing my feelings.

I look like a dude and feel like a dude, and it sucks. But eventually I'll flip, and I'll present as female.

I felt more and more like I was putting on an act - like I was being shoved into this role of 'angry white man in a punk band.'

Writing your memoir is inherently narcissistic.

Trying to cause chaos - I think that's the way I create change.

Eating's really important before getting tattooed. You need energy.

I had gone from being married with a kid, two cars, garage, nice house in a nice neighborhood to all of it gone.

I feel self-conscious for even having met so many other band people and artists, I don't want to be that artist that is only able to talk about themselves and their own band. I don't want to be that person. I'd rather just be quiet than be that person.

I never get to forget who I am, my gender identity.

I think that on paper we did make so many of the classic mistakes that a punk band makes, signing to a major label, getting in business with the wrong people, stuff like that.

I remember being really young - being 13 or 14 - when I first was really excited about punk rock as an idea, and I was like, 'Don't ever not be punk. Don't ever not be punk.' Telling that to myself, I guess it was like self-defense against the scary world around me.