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" I like to make glamorously informed songs for glamorously intelligent people. "

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" 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. "

" I'm so grateful for my endless delusion. "

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

" I won't do press anymore unless I can talk about the homophobia and let queer people know our ideas are mainstream. "

" 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. "

" My artist career failed pretty miserably multiple times. "

" In every school, there's always the kid who gets it the worst, and I was, for sure, that kid. Every time you had to get in a line that was boys and girls, it was like my worst nightmare. A lot of kids I know got made fun of for being gay; that was not my issue: I was just called a girl endlessly. "

" I'm so connected to the community that I was lucky enough to be born into. "

" I like to play this game where I ask people to count gay pop writers and producers they know. Everyone's always like, 'Oh, there are plenty!' But we always end up counting them on one hand. "

" I was born into the most amazing family an underdog could be born into, and I was born into the LGBTQ community. And what a beautiful community we are. The art, the music, the fashion, the brains, the fight, the survival skills, the diversity, male, female, non-binary, Gender Non Conforming, cis, trans, femme, and all races. "

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

" When you are born gay, you are born into a rich culture of politics, music, and art, but you are also a minority in your own home. "

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

" Before anything else, my favorite thing as a fan of music was to make up my own story as to what it means. "

" For me personally, I'm anti-gun and always have been and always will be. But I'm definitely not someone who is looking to abolish the Second Amendment. I think we're definitely interpreting it wrong. "

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

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

" If a song is being written for a woman, there should be a woman in the room collaborating. "

" My existence is rock n' roll. "

" 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. "

" When I'm in a session with an artist, my job is to help execute their vision - so it's whatever story they're telling, and the news doesn't specifically affect that. "

" I shot a gun one time in New Zealand. An entertainment news program there thought, since the band was called Semi Precious Weapons, they would bring us to a gun range. "

" If a song I'm lucky enough to be a part of comes on the radio, it's definitely really cool and exciting, but I can't focus on anything but the song. Same if one of my songs comes on in a restaurant. I can't just carry on a conversation. "

" I've experienced some really very obvious, direct homophobia - when I was still trying to be an artist, behind the scenes, being told to be less gay, be less feminine. "

" I love myself. I love my friends. "

" I just want to make music that people hear, and I'm not ashamed of that. "

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

" I don't like labels. "

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

" When I saw Courtney Love in 1994, I knew what I wanted to do. The minute I saw a female-fronted rock n' roll band, that changed my life. "