I never advocate that you should be lonely, or come to my shows and bring me your razor blade to show me that you don’t cut anymore. There is also a celebration of being an outcast, to the degree that you are segregating yourself in a negative way from people who may want to be your friend. I feel that there is a culture being built that is a celebration of agony. That is something that causes great concern for me. Do you find that your songs have been especially helpful to your fans that are being bullied or feel like outcasts?Ībsolutely! I think that it’s important to note that you touched on how a lot of artists are writing songs about bullying. There have been a number of artists who have written songs about bullying, but your songs seem to be more about empowerment. It’s interesting that you had the awareness at such a young age of having something to offer that others just didn’t get it. There was something intrinsic to me that they just didn’t get, which was ok. Pretty early on, I just started to believe that they didn’t understand me. I was a straight boy with hormones kicking in, and I wanted to talk to girls, but they weren’t interested in talking back to me, so there was a real sense of loneliness.ĭid you end up resenting the girls for ignoring you? It was a great cause of pain for me, and because of that, I didn’t really get the chance to talk to girls. They would always ask me to do the “Truffle Shuffle.” From 4 th grade to 7 th grade, I was overweight, and the kids would say that I looked like Chunk from The Goonies. I fluctuated in weight all through my adolescence.
Wow, that’s shocking! I never would have guessed that you would have been overweight. This was due either to the way that I dressed, or because I was a little bit overweight when I was a kid, so I would get made fun of for being chubby. And the times when I wasn’t on my own, I faced some sort of derision from someone around me. It wasn’t that I thought that I was better than them I just didn’t associate with them in any way.īecause of the kind of music that I liked, and the different way that I dressed, it was kind of a perfect storm, creating a situation where I existed on my own throughout my schooling. I had a certain kind of disassociation from the other kids because I had more interest in sociology, ideas and trying to communicate those ideas to the kids around me. When I was growing up in school, I wasn’t the archetype of the classic American nerd I was just different. Can you talk a little bit about the bullying that you experienced as a kid and how you handled it?
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