The most radical thing about our lives is getting to be in a visibly filled-out queer crowd every night. — Ben Hopkins About Copy Share Image
A lot of my queer development as a kid came from trawling the Internet. — Ben Hopkins Came Copy Share Image
Creating a safe space at our shows isn't encouraging anything. It's just saying thank you. — Ben Hopkins Anything Copy Share Image
When you're a queer person put in the spotlight, you're supposed to have all the answers. — Ben Hopkins Answers Copy Share Image
I want to say that our shows are safer-spaces shows. Don't push anyone or affect anyone's space. — Ben Hopkins Affect Copy Share Image
Like my gender, sometimes things don't come out right the first time. — Ben Hopkins Come Copy Share Image
I'm a freewheeling flower-child falling down the stairs constantly. — Ben Hopkins Constantly Copy Share Image
I'm in a car so much on tour that I often just ask my friends to DJ and ask them what they… — Ben Hopkins Best Copy Share Image
What we do is provide a suggestion. We say, 'We're queer. We're going to do this; we're going to open up the… — Ben Hopkins Open Copy Share Image
I feel like with PWR BTTM, Liv and I tried to create something that was kind and cared about the people who… — Ben Hopkins Come Copy Share Image
There is power in organization. There is power in a community. People have always wanted to destroy communities. — Ben Hopkins Community Copy Share Image
When I started playing music, I was more of a character. Now I'm just me with a cool outfit on. I'm more… — Ben Hopkins Character Copy Share Image
Ben Hopkins is a very nervous, neurotic kind of person who is afraid of not being liked by people all the time.… — Ben Hopkins Kind Copy Share Image
I think the earnestness of what we're saying and what other bands like us are totally saying - or other queer bands… — Ben Hopkins Earnestness Copy Share Image
I think that when you're queer, you grow up with these kinds of men who might have made you feel small because… — Ben Hopkins Family Copy Share Image
I'd say, at the end of the day, you know, from a songwriting practice standpoint, you write songs to make yourself feel… — Ben Hopkins Control Copy Share Image
For queer people, the personal is very political, just to talk about it in a public space. It's very political just to… — Ben Hopkins Come Copy Share Image
I know what we're going to do as PWR BTTM. We're going to put a new record out; we're going to go… — Ben Hopkins Cool Copy Share Image
I think that our work and our music stands on its own without this knowledge about our identity around it. But I… — Ben Hopkins Consciously Copy Share Image
It's our responsibility to cater to the needs of people who come and enjoy our work who have the same values we… — Ben Hopkins Change Copy Share Image
As a white queer person of a certain degree of economic privilege, I think that my ability to pass as straight is… — Ben Hopkins Attention Copy Share Image
People who pigeonhole us for our queerness are not people I'm interested in knowing. They're so boring. How dare you be so… — Ben Hopkins Boring Copy Share Image
We're not writing songs to solve a cultural problem. The goal for us is to express what we're going through, and it's… — Ben Hopkins Find Copy Share Image
Is punk dressing up in leather jackets? No. It's having a counter-cultural perspective. — Ben Hopkins Having Copy Share Image
You can't deny who you are, so you might as well be yourself in the most authentic way. — Ben Hopkins Authentic Copy Share Image
For me, choosing to perform in drag, because of all the things I enjoy about it, is a political act. — Ben Hopkins About Copy Share Image
Queer is invincible because people have tried everything - haven't they? What haven't they tried to do to queer people? And horrible… — Ben Hopkins Everything Copy Share Image
PWR BTTM isn't the only queer rock band. We've been lucky to receive a platform. If you go on Bandcamp and search… — Ben Hopkins Band Copy Share Image
Rather than writing about my experiences with other people, 'Ugly Cherries' is the first song I've ever written about myself. It's a… — Ben Hopkins Cherries Copy Share Image
If you listen to PWR BTTM, or to Gloss, If you look at me on stage, it can make you feel less… — Ben Hopkins Alone Copy Share Image
