PS: Something I admire about you is how you resist labels. Your persona is a celebration of all the beauty that exists outside the binary, in those liminal spaces — it's chaotic and controlled, soft and sharp, macho and femme. You play with those aesthetics. In the EP, you cradle us with a song like "Mountains (We Met)," then take us on this roller-coaster fever dream with "La Vita Nuova," which is a stark contrast.
Yet, people love to label, and assign, and define what they don't understand — things that don't need defining at all. I was going through your past interviews, and you are made to define, and explain, and educate others so often. Honestly, it's tiring. As a queer person, thank you for doing that work. But, what advice would you give those who don't want to tick those boxes either, who want to live more freely?
C: Well, thank you for saying all that to me; it really warms my heart. It's a tough one, because I think I try to answer that question every day as I move forward. But I think the first thing you have to [do] is be comfortable with yourself.
You know, the lockdown, for example, has been for everybody a really deep experience. For myself was a lot on my own, and I thought a lot about my youth. Well, not that I'm 60. But I kind of really reminisced a lot.
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