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" 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. "

Justin Tranter

Enough

Restaurant

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Thought

Superstar

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

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

" Music spoke to me when I was young in such an intimate, empowering, magical way, and I think that music is already doing that for young queer kids. "

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Think

Doing

" The only thing that's serious to me about music is making sure marginalized people are included in the story. "

" I don't like labels. "

Justin Tranter

Labels

" I love to give the song away - it's so exciting - where, I think, a lot of younger songwriters, they struggle with that. And it's a big struggle, where they want the shine and they want people to know that it was their idea and it was their doing. But luckily, I've been through that, so I can just focus on helping other people do their thing. "

" 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. "

" We really like L.A. because it really likes rock and roll. "

Justin Tranter

Rock And Roll

Rock

" 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. "

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

" My choice of shoe upsets people a lot more than my filthy mouth. "

" I want to make sure in every song we write that women are given power. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I'm fortunate that I have a female publisher, and her boss is a man of color. My world is a little more diverse, but the majority of the business is not diverse at all. "

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

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

" I really do pride myself on being able to help other people tell their stories and bring out the best in them. But I still, every song I'm writing, I still need to relate to it. I still need to find my true self in it, or else it'll feel dishonest. I mean, everything has a queer meaning as far as I'm concerned. "

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

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

" 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. "

Justin Tranter

Writing

Amazing

" I am a genderless sea creature who has been writing and studying music since I was 12. "

" I love myself. I love my friends. "

" 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 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 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. "