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

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

" 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. "

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

" I love myself. I love my friends. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 bullying was so bad that I got to go to the arts high school instead. "

" I really want queer kids to know that our experience is universal. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I've experienced some really very obvious, direct homophobia - when I was still trying to be an artist, behind the scenes, being told to be less gay, be less feminine. "

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

" 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'm a walking political statement. "

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

" 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. "

" I've had the experience of going through homophobia in my work, and I can share my experiences so future generations don't have to deal with what I've dealt with. "