I Only Want To Make

There's Good Stuff And Bad Stuff, But You Continue On. I'm Not Prescriptive - I Cannot Tell Anyone Else What To Do With Their Lives, And I'm A Deeply Flawed Individual - But This Is It. We're All Just Living It And... Bless Us All.

There's So Much Stigma Around Hiv/aids. It's A Challenging Issue, And The People That Already Have Been Tested And Know Their Status Find It Very, Very Hard To Disclose Their Status, To Live With That Virus, And To Even Seek Out The Kind Of Information They Need. This Experience Of Going To South Africa A Decade Ago Really Woke Me Up To The Scale Of The Hiv/aids Pandemic In Sub-saharan Africa, How It Was Affecting Women And Their Children. I Haven't Been Able To Walk Away From It.

I Had A Number Of Different Labels. A Lot Of People Assumed I Was Gay Because I Was Wearing A Man's Suit, And One Had To Learn That It's Ok, People Will Do That, And You Don't Always Have To Explain It One Hundred Percent, Because They're Never Going To Accept What Your Own Interpretation Is. It's All Illusory.

I Only Want To Make Music Because I Have A Passion For It.

In The States, The Hiv Transmission From Mother To Child Is Almost Completely Preventable - The Only Mothers Who Really Do Transmit It Are The Ones Who Don't Come In For Care. If A Mother In The United States Or In Europe Or In The Uk Comes To Care And Gets Her Medicines, She Will Have An Hiv Negative Baby. Most People Don't Know That.