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

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

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

" Gaga the person is much like Gaga the celebrity. She is very sweet, loyal, and funny with her fans, and she is very sweet, loyal, and funny with her friends. On stage, she is over-the-top, ridiculous, dirty, and genuine on stage, and she is very over-the-top, ridiculous, dirty, and genuine with her friends. "

" I really do pride myself on being able to help other people tell their stories and bring out the best in them. But I still, every song I'm writing, I still need to relate to it. I still need to find my true self in it, or else it'll feel dishonest. I mean, everything has a queer meaning as far as I'm concerned. "

" 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 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. "

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

" Most of my friends are my friends because they inspire me. "

" I'm a walking political statement. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" A little makeover never hurt nobody. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My existence is rock n' roll. "

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