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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" I don't like labels. "

" For me, as a performer or a songwriter, Stevie Nicks is always a huge inspiration as well as Iggy Pop. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" I like to play this game where I ask people to count gay pop writers and producers they know. Everyone's always like, 'Oh, there are plenty!' But we always end up counting them on one hand. "

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

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

" 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! "

" In every school, there's always the kid who gets it the worst, and I was, for sure, that kid. Every time you had to get in a line that was boys and girls, it was like my worst nightmare. A lot of kids I know got made fun of for being gay; that was not my issue: I was just called a girl endlessly. "

" My existence is rock n' roll. "

" 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. "

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

" When I'm in a session with an artist, my job is to help execute their vision - so it's whatever story they're telling, and the news doesn't specifically affect that. "

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

" I thought I was a superstar at 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.' "

" My artist career failed pretty miserably multiple times. "

" When you are born gay, you are born into a rich culture of politics, music, and art, but you are also a minority in your own home. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "