To the best of my understanding, Bob’s position on gay people is this: They’re not natural. Everybody says it’s natural to be gay, and Bob is like: No. They are a product of the modern world. They could only exist in a perverted society. Gay people are a response to a world that’s out of whack.

I mean, is Bob saying we should kill all the gay people? No. And I definitely don’t think that. I love gay people. I love all kinds of people. I mean, what people do in the privacy of their own homes, like, what people do with their own lives—why should that affect me? It’s everyone’s responsibility to figure their own shit out for themselves, and like, make their own way through the world, and what the fuck do I care who fucks who or how they do it?

But people are so hungry to like … throw each other into the fire, you know, so when they heard that Bob said that—which is like, crammed into chapter fifty-six of like, a five-hundred-page book he wrote SIXTEEN YEARS ago, but whatever, I mean, I guess he published it, so it’s all fair game—but when that shit surfaced, all of a sudden people are asking me in interviews, like: Do YOU think gay people are not natural? Have YOU spoken to Bob about this?

And I’m like: That’s not what Bob and I talk about! LOL. Look at all the OTHER shit Bob said. Look at all the actually amazing, like actually mind-blowing shit that he’s written about, and actually READ his books, and then talk to me. I mean, seriously, it’s like, if people actually read Bob, they’d have a lot more interesting shit to be angry about. I mean, Bob’s said some shit that pokes at the very structure of our REALITY. But, meanwhile, they want me to focus on the gay shit? They want me to focus on THAT? They want me to spend my time on THAT just because that’s what THEY’RE concerned about?

And again, it’s like, this is something I really firmly believe: I think one of the things that normal people just absolutely can’t understand about someone like me is that I just don’t have the same framework for the world that they do. Even intellectuals or whatever, like, even really smart people, I mean, they may be people of the world, you know, but they’re still essentially tied down to certain traditions—like, they’re all still speaking from a certain POSITION in society—and so there’s a real limit to how much they can understand. But for me, it’s like, I have fans all over the world, you know—I exist for EVERYONE—and so I can’t just be so quick to speak from a certain perspective. I go to places I’ve never even heard of, and they’re using me to sell baby shampoo. They’re playing my songs at protests. They’re dressing up as me for Halloween and putting ornaments of my face on the Christmas tree.