Cain: "I get so caught up in the fantasy and the fun of making a story that I forget that there are real-world reasons that I do what I do."

Cain: "I’m used to being alone in a quiet, isolated environment – I’m kind of a low-energy, low-vibration, low-stamina person to begin with – so let’s just say I’m very out of shape"

Cain: "I kind of just sat in a room for six years making music, and then suddenly I was on the road all the time."

Cain: "I just sit in my cave all day and write or embroider, watch a movie, play a game. My friends and I will go to the woods or a river, anywhere there’s not a lot of people."

Cain: "I’m trying to push my own envelope a bit. I’m trying to be super intentional about it and careful and dedicated and meticulous."

Cain: "I remember just lots of time outdoors. I remember there was a very specific way that it feels to listen to a streetlight hum — those old, I guess fluorescent ones — and the way that they look glowing through the leaves of an oak tree.… I remember the way it felt to stand in a dank shed and smell that powdery dirt that’s in Florida. Just the way that it felt to be a child and try to make sense of things."

Cain: "I don’t want to have all of my personal business and every innermost thought just out there on the internet for the world to see."

Cain: "I wanted to not be known as a trans artist, I think, not because I didn’t want people to know I was trans, or because I didn’t want to be proud of that fact, but.… It has shaped the way that I am in certain ways, but it’s not everything."

Cain: "If I had to describe it in a silly way, I would say there’s three people living in my body."

Cain: "There’s a punk-ass 16-year-old boy who lives with his grandma, the grandma that he lives with, and then the demon that lives in their basement."

Cain: "I almost resent touring sometimes. I’m like, ‘Let me go home. I need to sink into my hole.’ Let it come to me, and then create."

Cain: "Maybe someday, if I can figure out a way that I can perform that is better for me, but the standard setup of, ‘Go out, be in front of a bunch of people’ — I don’t like to be in front of a bunch of people. I don’t like to be the center of attention 100 percent."

Cain: "When you are trans, you are living a very specific experience that not many other people in the world have."

Cain: "It’s so hard when you try to represent the South because there’s so much just straight-up depravity and kind of human insanity, but there’s also really beautiful parts."

Cain: "I had crushes on girls, I had crushes on boys, and I didn’t even really know what that meant."

Cain: "You’ll get up at 9 a.m. to start working, and then you’re like, ‘Oh, what time is it?’ It’s 4 a.m. the next day, but it’s fun — and insane and frustrating, and it makes me want to rip my hair out."

Cain: "I don’t like performing."

Cain: "I was literally going to the hospital because I was malnourished, and I was passing out all the time. My landlord was sending me angry texts every day because I was behind on rent. I was like, ‘I need money,’ and I signed."

Cain: "I work very slow. That’s how I like it."