look at Harvey Weinstein he looks like a creep. When all this stuff started coming out in the film industry more and more I'm was like, Of course. They are doing terrible things, tell people about it. They don't want to snitch and I'm like, 'Motherfucker, snitch!' Those guys aren't your friends, they're not good people. The thing that sucks that I think, is that a lot of guys don't speak up.

Oh yeah, I'm sure there is still time where stuff will come out. I also wanted to ask you, why do you think #MeToo never really touched the music industry? Miles ahead in terms of their genuine passion for it, their love for it, but their genius behind it I don't think I would've had the means to do that. They are already miles ahead of where I was. I don't think I had that and that of itself is inspiring. It's also nice that these kids, again like the Parkland shooting, they are able to speak up without any hesitation and that shows me how courageous they really are. I know, and the fact that we are reporting on it more is disheartening. It feels like the hate and the shootings are just so much more prolific now. I didn't feel that strength at that age at all. Kids who are 14 or 15-years-old are mobilizing. To me the kids are so smart nowadays and they mobilize without any inclination as to why or how they need to do it.

I want to start foundations where I can start putting my time and efforts and energy and money into things that I believe in - whether it's helping the youth or disenfranchised groups. I like my music to be an escape from it all, but then I like to use my celebrity as a means to fight for causes I believe in. We're so focused on rhetoric and stuff it's like, 'Yeah, Donald Trump says really dumb shit all the time but he's doing way worse shit.'ĭo you feel like you need to get political in music now? Or do you want to have art be art - a means of escape. I'm of the, it's not what people say it's what they do and who they are. I've said things without thinking about it - not trying to be offensive. People just get hammered and fool around. I would hang out with friends and after five or six beers we're just kind of like smooching on each other. I know that it made a few people uncomfortable, when somebody gets uncomfortable about me doing what I used to call 'stage gay.' It kind of presses me to want to do it more.įor our first headline tour I would go up to Ryan our guitar player, and like kiss him on the neck or kiss him on the mouth and he would be so mad. Related | Celebrities Are Identifying as Pansexual, Here's What That Meansĭid you find yourself as a young man having to really come to terms with your sexuality? I guess so, I guess this is me coming out as pansexual. I just like good people, if your heart's in the right place. If a person is great, then a person is great.

Yeah I guess you could qualify me as pansexual because I really don't care. I'm married to a woman and I'm very much in love with her but I'm not opposed to a man because to me, I like a person. You also don't buy into the old masculinity tropes. Taking this thing that I wrote about and then changing it to be more inspiring for your own purposes, what a beautiful idea. That song was about my first threesome but they made it about coming out and accepting who you are as person which I thought, what a way better message. I wrote this song 'Girls, Girls, Boys' about my first threesome when I was 15 or 16. I found the 'Thank You Brendon' fan account on Instagram and there are all these people who say helped them embrace their bisexuality and to come to terms with queerness. These guys would just come up and I was like, 'I'm flattered but I'm not interested but thank you.' They were like, 'We'll get you interested sweetheart.' I was just like, This is dope. I remember just being hit on all night and it was awesome. These two girls invited us out and she knew the bouncer so we just got in. I remember reading yours and Ryan's first strip club was a gay strip club.Īctually my first bar was a gay bar.

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