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" I'm a walking political statement. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The larger streaming grows, the less money there will be to get the music out there, which, to me, is the sad part. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Great music is just very clear. Sonically and lyrically, you understand the point of view, you understand the melodies, you understand the vibe, and you understand the lyric pretty damn quickly. To me, that doesn't make it 'less than' - it makes it 'more than.' "

" 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! "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I feel like there is a lot of homophobia and misogyny in the music business, and I feel like I've gotten to a place where I've broken down a lot of those doors. "

" 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. "

" 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 don't like labels. "

" 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. "

" 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. "