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" For me, as a performer or a songwriter, Stevie Nicks is always a huge inspiration as well as Iggy Pop. "

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" Gaga the person is much like Gaga the celebrity. She is very sweet, loyal, and funny with her fans, and she is very sweet, loyal, and funny with her friends. On stage, she is over-the-top, ridiculous, dirty, and genuine on stage, and she is very over-the-top, ridiculous, dirty, and genuine with her friends. "

" I worked at a jewelry store to pay the bills when I first moved to N.Y.C., and I always loved the phrase 'Semi Precious.' So I wanted to just call the band Semi Precious, but my dad told it was kinda sissy, so I added Weapons. "

" The beauty of letting marginalized people tell their own stories is it isn't only the right thing to do socially, but it's also the right thing to do financially. People love the truth, and people like to spend money on the truth. "

" In some ways, it's more rewarding to hear someone interpret a piece of music that you're a part of. "

" Once I got into pop songwriting, I was kind of just ready to help other people tell their stories... I'm here to facilitate and structure and grow and make things a little more fabulous and a little more urgent. "

" Most of my friends are my friends because they inspire me. "

" I know that it's my queer perspective that's helping people make songs that the world is listening to. "

" I'm really proud of 'Kissing Strangers.' "

" I wouldn't want to write a song in a pair of sneakers. I think it would be a horrible song. "

" Beyonce, Stevie Nicks, Ani DiFranco, Cardi B - Women tell awesome stories. "

" This is the dream: to make money off of what you love. "

" The Knife can't stop cloaking brilliant pop songs in voodoo jam blankets. "

" In the band Semi-Precious Weapons, I got to sing, wear, and say exactly what I wanted for ten years. "

" If you listen to Semi-Precious Weapons' last single, 'Aviation High,' you can definitely hear that even in my old band, even in the songs I was writing then, the pop influence really started to take over. "

" Pop just means popular - it can be any genre, and if it becomes popular, then it's pop music. "

" I just didn't really relate to Kurt Cobain. There was nothing very glamorous about him. "

" For me, as a kid desperate to make music, I thought the only way I could do it was to try to be a superstar - which is a fun thing to be, but it can be exhausting and degrading. "

" I really want queer kids to know that our experience is universal. "

" I really loved Kygo and Selena Gomez's 'It Ain't Me.' "

" I was borderline deluded to think something as outrageous as Semi Precious Weapons could have been mainstream. "

" I didn't want a day job anymore, so I somehow made the jewelry line work. Now that I look back on it, it was, like, the dumbest idea ever. Everyone and their mother has a jewelry line, so in retrospect, maybe not the smartest fallback plan. But it ended up working out great! "

" Being a songwriter, you are accepting that this isn't about you. If you do want it to be about you, you're going to be really miserable. "

" People are always quick to judge SPW because of the fact that I wear heels. For me, I just have no choice. This is just how I feel beautiful and how I feel awesome. I would just be so uncomfortable onstage if I was wearing something else. "

" Good art should be polarizing. "

" Even though L.A. can be kind of tacky, when a city's big draws are The Roxy and the Viper Room, you know its pretty amazing. "

" My fashion is inspired by Tina Turner and Sharon Stone. "

" My existence is rock n' roll. "

" I love songs, Patty Larkin, Sharon Stone, Mae West, and Marilyn Monroe. "

" If I'm hanging out with my friends or I'm working out, I'll listen to female singer-songwriters from the '90s because that's where my heart lies. "

" I thought I was a superstar at 12. "