Ben Hopkins Quotes
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Like my gender, sometimes things don't come out right the first time.
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I'm a freewheeling flower-child falling down the stairs constantly.
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PWR BTTM fans dress up better than we do.
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Ben Hopkins is a very nervous, neurotic kind of person who is afraid of not being liked by people all the time. But, Monster-Me doesn't know who those people even are.
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I'd say, at the end of the day, you know, from a songwriting practice standpoint, you write songs to make yourself feel something true and validating, and cathartic, maybe, and then whoever responds to it is, like, out of your control.
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I think that our work and our music stands on its own without this knowledge about our identity around it. But I also think that we very consciously decided not to hold back that part of ourselves, but to be very vocal about who we are, kind of what experiences we've had in life, and how we identify.
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You can't deny who you are, so you might as well be yourself in the most authentic way.
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A lot of my queer development as a kid came from trawling the Internet.
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Creating a safe space at our shows isn't encouraging anything. It's just saying thank you.
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People who pigeonhole us for our queerness are not people I'm interested in knowing. They're so boring. How dare you be so boring? Grow up. Get some Ray-Bans.
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Drag has always made me feel less scared.