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

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" I first fell in love with music when I was five years old because of 'Annie.' And then 'The Little Mermaid' really made me want to start singing. And then the fierce, amazing women of the '90s - Alanis Morrissette, Courtney Love, Tori Amos, Ani Difranco, Paula Cole, Patty Griffin - made me want to start writing. "

" 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. "

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

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

" A man in high heels is the most dangerous thing in the world. "

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

" My existence is rock n' roll. "

" My success happened pretty late in life. I can't even believe it happened. "

" My artist career failed pretty miserably multiple times. "

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

" Obviously, Gaga's one of the greatest music visionaries of our time, and Beyonce is one of the greatest visions of our time. She is a music visionary, too. "

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

" 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. "

" I was very lucky that my family really supported me in exploring my femininity when I was young, and so it was a joyous thing. "

" For the most part, it's straight white men running these labels and publishing companies. "

" Good art should be polarizing. "

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

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

" 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. "

" When we were starting out as a band in New York, we played a concert at a small club early on and asked Lady Gaga to open for us. We were big fans, and she had the same kind of approach to music as we did: not taking everything so seriously and just having fun. "

" The one time I shot a gun, the feelings I felt, I was guilty for feeling them. There is an exhilaration and a glamour, and I felt awful for feeling that. "

" You can tell if something feels special. But there are so many moving parts involved in making the song a hit. The radio has to deliver, the management has to deliver in terms of booking the right promotions... just being a good song isn't enough. "

" I'm a walking political statement. "

" I think that because we have these big female pop stars, people forget that women and marginalized people are so underrepresented in this business. "

" The fans that fall in love with you at the show are always the most passionate. "

" 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. "

" Young women should be telling stories of other young women. And if the superstar who is an amazing storyteller isn't a writer, that's totally fine, but we should get a young female writer in the room to work on that song with us. "