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" Once I got into pop songwriting, I was kind of just ready to help other people tell their stories... I'm here to facilitate and structure and grow and make things a little more fabulous and a little more urgent. "

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" 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. "

Justin Tranter

Enough

Restaurant

Song

" 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. "

" I'm not famous. I work with famous people. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I love myself. I love my friends. "

" Truly saying sorry is never easy to do, and when you are, you just hope it's not too late. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

Justin Tranter

Rock And Roll

Rock

" 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. "

Justin Tranter

Family

Young

" 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. "

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

" If I'm hanging out with my friends or I'm working out, I'll listen to female singer-songwriters from the '90s because that's where my heart lies. "

" 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. "

" I first fell in love with music when I was five years old because of 'Annie.' And then 'The Little Mermaid' really made me want to start singing. And then the fierce, amazing women of the '90s - Alanis Morrissette, Courtney Love, Tori Amos, Ani Difranco, Paula Cole, Patty Griffin - made me want to start writing. "

Justin Tranter

Writing

Amazing

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Justin Tranter

Looking

Always

" 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. "

Justin Tranter

Women

Amazing

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

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

Justin Tranter

Because

Friends

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

Justin Tranter

Think

Doing