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'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.
People don't have to understand a language to understand the emotion and sentiment behind a song.
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.
What I learned early on, is that it's not really fun to do things alone.
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.
My earliest memories are of dysphoria.
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.
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.
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.
I had definitely stopped watching MTV by 2000.
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.
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.
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.
I just want to play shows and write songs and make music. That's what feels good.
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.
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.
I've been keeping tour journals since I was 17 years old.
I had some real health complications with my HRT - hormone replacement therapy.
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.
