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" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" A little makeover never hurt nobody. "

" 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. "

" I really loved Kygo and Selena Gomez's 'It Ain't Me.' "

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

" I'm a walking political statement. "

" Good art should be polarizing. "

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

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

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

" For me, as a kid desperate to make music, I thought the only way I could do it was to try to be a superstar - which is a fun thing to be, but it can be exhausting and degrading. "

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

" My artist career failed pretty miserably multiple times. "

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

" If a song is being written for a woman, there should be a woman in the room collaborating. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My existence is rock n' roll. "