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I love being alone.
I am obsessed with Matt Healy.
I feel sorry for straight people.
I've always loved sci-fi and fantasy.
I can be a really awkward frontman on stage.
I had such intense self-loathing for so long.
I'm a real left-winger. I fancy Jeremy Corbyn!
All the best songs have an element of sadness.
Normal is not a thing. No one's actually normal.
I don't want to be normal, I don't want to grow up.
My sexuality is part of my music, part of my identity.
We can't police the way people express their sexuality.
I think all of the best songs are about heartbreak and love.
I want to do a song with Rihanna - we need to make that work.
I get a real thrill for being 'overtly queer' in my aesthetic.
When I go on stage and perform, I'm an extreme version of myself.
I love TLC and Aaliyah and all those early-millennial R&B singers.
Pop music has a pretty good track record of embracing queer culture.
You can't have a nuanced debate on Twitter, it's just people shouting.
I get trolled. The usual stuff - sometimes it's homophobic, like gay hate.
I identify as a gay man all the time, but I also like to identify as queer.
When I was a bit younger, I loved Rufus Wainwright - just the fact that he existed.
I'm a big believer that if you want things to change you have to embody that change.
There's entrenched homophobia behind the scenes at all levels of the music industry.
I used to be scared of people thinking I was gay but now I'd be shocked if they didn't.
I just listen to true-crime podcasts, do some weights and pretend I know what I'm doing.
I had what would now be called sleep paralysis, from six years old until maybe I was 16.
It's like any other part of your body - your mental health gets sick, and it needs treatment.
I think kids are all focused on their hierarchy and status, and I was low status or something.
It's just a very weird thing to have a relationship that's commented on by the world wide web.
I think the reason I've been so committed to advocacy is because I see so many people in pain.
I feel like listening to sad songs are a way of narrating your life and confirming your identity.
I don't know what's wrong with me - I don't know why I only get picked to play strange characters!
I was never diagnosed with an eating disorder but I definitely had a difficult relationship with food.
Justin Tranter is an incredible queer voice in pop music and he's writing for Justin Bieber: it's genius.
I've been writing a lot of songs about my personal life and identity. That can be a real healing process.
We have to listen and learn from each other to lift each other up, so we can all live the life we deserve.
We could perform in space or be the first band to play moon, but we want to be the first 'Star Wars' band.
I've been taking medication for depression and anxiety ever since I was a teenager and I've had treatment for both.
The likelihood is that you or someone you know closely will suffer from a mental health condition in your lifetime.
At 13 I taught myself piano from an old song book, and Joni Mitchell's 'Both Sides Now' was the first song I learned.
Personally, I've always been ashamed of my body and I've hated being so skinny - I had an eating disorder for so long.
Well, I moved around quite a lot so I was born in Yorkshire and then I moved to Blackpool, which is like North England.
Let's let our men be happy, be sad, be trans, be questioning, be bisexual, be non-conforming, be feminine, be masculine!
I think everyone knows what it is like being in love. It's never a smooth thing. Whether you are happily together or not.
Solitude is very restorative for me, especially because I spend so much time around other people and performing to people.
I think anything that happens to you between the ages of zero to 18, and probably further on, has a lasting impact on you.
I used to travel a lot as a kid and when I first moved to England I felt lonely and my parents were splitting up at the time.
As young as 10 I started fancying boys. It's a common experience but I just wished I wasn't gay up until the age of 18 or 19.
I think music can be therapeutic and a really positive thing, but that seeing a therapist is the best form of therapy you can get.