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.
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.
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.
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'm not famous. I work with famous people.
Good art should be polarizing.
I don't like labels.
I am a genderless sea creature who has been writing and studying music since I was 12.
I love songs, Patty Larkin, Sharon Stone, Mae West, and Marilyn Monroe.
Most of my friends are my friends because they inspire me.
I think that because we have these big female pop stars, people forget that women and marginalized people are so underrepresented in this business.
For the most part, it's straight white men running these labels and publishing companies.
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.
I just want to make music that people hear, and I'm not ashamed of that.
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.
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.
A man in high heels is the most dangerous thing in the world.
I'm so connected to the community that I was lucky enough to be born into.
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.
This is the dream: to make money off of what you love.
