My typical topics of solitude and connection, as well as my relationship with the straight world.

I think anytime I've talked about my queerness in music, it's always been explicitly head on. Straight Boy from my 2017 album Revelations is definitely an early example of me figuring out how to write in a way that would allow me to do a full project like this one.

Yeah, I mostly mention my gripe with the expectation to constantly monetise as an independent artist. I understand most independent artists don't have much of a choice, but I also think it's important to have some facets of our creativity sacred.

Well I definitely wanted to centre the butterfly imagery, because it's such a symbol of peace and stability for me. The cool thing about AI is all I had to do is collect a bunch of references I like, then it did the work for us. The stuff isn't instantly done though, we still had to polish and organise the designs. The stuff AI comes up with is still a bit disorganised and needs further human curation.

 It absolutely comes with a fat ass duty of expectation, but that doesn't make the work any less positive. We aren't a monolith and not everyone is going to agree with me or have my experience and that's fine.

I feel demonic sometimes, and think I look pretty cool in horns.

I think I definitely have visual eras in correlation with my albums, but I think this and the last one were the first time it was intentional.

Definitely. I think even though touring is opening back up it's still very dicey, so I just want to do things that make sense.

It was only daunting in a very superficial way. There has been nothing more internally fulfilling than following my muse as an artist and taking my legacy into my own hands.

Yes, I think my ever-evolving sound is certainly in response to my every-changing and evolving life. I almost look at my albums as scrapbooks of different points of my life.

Well for Heterosexuality we listened to a lot of Björk of course. I'm also clearly inspired by ‘90s alternative rock like Swervedriver and Kitchens of Distinction. I also really love folk metal like Emma Ruth Rundle.

Yeah totally. I wanted to have something where I can shepherd new artists into the industry in a more healthy and sustainable way than I was. Basically I help new artists develop naturally from the ground up, without any normal industry pressure.