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" 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. "

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" The thing is, if you tell your story specifically enough, it becomes so universal. Just because you're a gay man singing an honest love song, people should know that it's about men and that they can still relate to it. "

Justin Tranter

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Love

" 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. "

" 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. "

Justin Tranter

Think

Doing

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

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

Justin Tranter

Really

Loved

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

" If you think of 'Chandelier,' Sia's singing her heart out about all those moments before she got sober, and that's one way to convey emotion and make people hear every word. "

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

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

" My goal is that my makeup and style will inspire Midwestern housewives. I want there to be a breakdown of 'Justin's smoky eye' in Cosmo. "

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

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

" 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. "

" A lot of writers don't know what it feels like to get on stage. They don't understand the weight that songs can carry. I got a chance to play all these shows. I got a chance to define myself through music, so when it comes to helping other people figure out what they should say, I've been through it. "

" 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. "

Justin Tranter

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Young

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

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

" 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. "

" 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! "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Under-sung vocals can be very sexy because of the intimacy, but they can be just as heartbreaking for the same reason. "

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

" All songwriters are known as 'topliners' because the vocal goes on top of the track. "

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

" 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. "

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