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" There's something really special to me about sharing mutual admiration with another musician. "

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" I have many queer friends who I consider to be heroes of mine, and they feel the same way toward me. "

" I usually put on a lip and some mascara before I head out of the house. It makes me feel good. I started experimenting with makeup back in high school. One of my friends, who shall remain nameless, shoplifted a bunch of drugstore cosmetics for me, and I would just play with it in my room at night. "

" I used to listen to so many song bands that were all straight people, and my thinking on it was, 'Well, if I can kind of suspend my own perception of myself and listen to Rivers Cuomo singing about girls, then I don't see why a straight guy can't listen to a band called PWR BTTM.' "

" I want to make sure that I can stand behind every word I'm saying, because whoever I am in six months is going to have to be accountable. "

" Growing up, I was listening to Scissor Sisters. "

" I care more about a 15-year-old queer kid in Iowa who wants to know that there's anything out there that resembles their experience and life than the hip queer person in Brooklyn. "

" I'm always excited to create space for people to relate to one another. "

" Only having one melody instrument in play at a time meant that we could improvise more in our practices. "

" I think this is the funny thing about PWR BTTM that a lot of people don't realize at first, which is that straight people have always loved us - inexplicably, seemingly. "

" The snappy way I would sum it up is not everyone is queer, but everyone has felt different. And I think that is something that people can really relate to in our music. "

" I do think that for a queer person to speak truthfully without shame about their own experiences is political. "

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" My way of connecting to the community that I imagined was out there somewhere for me, but wasn't there right now was to download tons and tons of discographies of famed divas. So I had Christina Aguilera's discography, Whitney Houston's discography, Mariah Carey's discography, all of that. "

" 'Carbs' is the first song I wrote, and 'I Wanna Boi' is the second song I wrote. I am very proud of every song I made since then. Anything I'm not proud of I wouldn't show people. "

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