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" My artist career failed pretty miserably multiple times. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A couple of days working with Joe Jonas, I thought, 'This guy is a slayer of a singer; he's really funny, goofy, and sexy. We need to write that.' And that led to 'Cake By The Ocean.' "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" It's interesting to see the more femme that you present yourself, the more people sort of dehumanize you. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" My mom has a big ol' crush on Arne Duncan, so I hear about and see pics of him all the time. I think he could look great in heels! "

" 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. "

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

" Good art should be polarizing. "

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

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

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

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