I'm using the success I've had to help other people shine.

I won't do press anymore unless I can talk about the homophobia and let queer people know our ideas are mainstream.

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.

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.

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

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.

I'm so connected to the community that I was lucky enough to be born into.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

I love songs, Patty Larkin, Sharon Stone, Mae West, and Marilyn Monroe.

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

I don't like labels.

Good art should be polarizing.

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 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.

My choice of shoe upsets people a lot more than my filthy mouth.

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.

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.

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.