I do think that for a queer person to speak truthfully without shame about their own experiences is political. Liv Bruce More Quotes by Liv Bruce More Quotes From Liv Bruce I think this is the funny thing about PWR BTTM that a lot of people don't realize at first, which is that straight people have always loved us - inexplicably, seemingly. Liv Bruce loved think funny people The snappy way I would sum it up is not everyone is queer, but everyone has felt different. And I think that is something that people can really relate to in our music. Liv Bruce think music people way I used to listen to so many song bands that were all straight people, and my thinking on it was, 'Well, if I can kind of suspend my own perception of myself and listen to Rivers Cuomo singing about girls, then I don't see why a straight guy can't listen to a band called PWR BTTM.' Liv Bruce myself singing song people I want to make sure that I can stand behind every word I'm saying, because whoever I am in six months is going to have to be accountable. Liv Bruce stand i-am saying i-can I've been spending a lot of time poring over everything I've written, because I know people are going to hear it. Liv Bruce everything know time people Music can be new to you but not new right now. It can be really fun to ask people of different generations what they used to go see. Liv Bruce you music fun people There are a lot of bands that my parents used to go see that I haven't necessarily heard of, and asking them to dig up stuff like that is a really fun way to discover music. Liv Bruce parents music fun way There's something really special to me about sharing mutual admiration with another musician. Liv Bruce sharing something me special My friend and I were talking about the band Limp Wrist, and how cool that name is, so we started bouncing other queer-punk band names off each other. The first one I thought of was The Power Bottoms, which I later shortened to Power Bottom. Liv Bruce name friend cool power If they're booking a PWR BTTM show, they know what they're in for. Liv Bruce booking show know In the studio, we sometimes will add bass or some other stuff, like more layers of the same guitar part that's already there, but ultimately, the sound is about guitar and drums. Liv Bruce will guitar sound sometimes Only having one melody instrument in play at a time meant that we could improvise more in our practices. Liv Bruce more only play time As for the drag thing, we each do it in different ways and for different reasons. For me, it's kinda about expressing a side of myself that's always in there but usually doesn't come out. Mostly because I'm too lazy to look that good every day. Liv Bruce day good myself me I first went to 'Rocky Horror' when I was 14, and nothing was the same after that. For about two months afterwards, I would watch that movie in my bed every night. Liv Bruce nothing horror bed night I usually put on a lip and some mascara before I head out of the house. It makes me feel good. I started experimenting with makeup back in high school. One of my friends, who shall remain nameless, shoplifted a bunch of drugstore cosmetics for me, and I would just play with it in my room at night. Liv Bruce good me makeup night I'm typically attracted to men or male-identified people 99% of the time. But I guess if I had to pick a label for it, I don't know know... 'Gay' doesn't really work anymore because it means when a man loves a man, and I don't feel like a man. That doesn't super work for me anymore. Liv Bruce me man work men Sometimes I feel like both; sometimes I feel like neither. Sometimes I feel like something else completely. Gender-wise, I identify as a non-binary person, which means not male, not female. Liv Bruce i-feel-like person feel sometimes In a way, a stage can be the safest place to be visibly queer and non-gender conforming because you're literally surrounded by witnesses. Any type of violence that a person might try to carry out on you, that's just not a very likely place to do it. Liv Bruce place you violence way I care more about a 15-year-old queer kid in Iowa who wants to know that there's anything out there that resembles their experience and life than the hip queer person in Brooklyn. Liv Bruce know experience care life My way of connecting to the community that I imagined was out there somewhere for me, but wasn't there right now was to download tons and tons of discographies of famed divas. So I had Christina Aguilera's discography, Whitney Houston's discography, Mariah Carey's discography, all of that. Liv Bruce somewhere me community way
