My fashion is inspired by Tina Turner and Sharon Stone.

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

For me, as a performer or a songwriter, Stevie Nicks is always a huge inspiration as well as Iggy Pop.

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

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

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

I've had the experience of going through homophobia in my work, and I can share my experiences so future generations don't have to deal with what I've dealt with.

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

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

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.

Beyonce, Stevie Nicks, Ani DiFranco, Cardi B - Women tell awesome stories.

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!

'World Is Our Playground' is a big room banger that makes you wanna check into a hostel and call Mike Taylor.

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.

A man in high heels is the most dangerous thing in the world.

In some ways, it's more rewarding to hear someone interpret a piece of music that you're a part of.

When I saw Courtney Love in 1994, I knew what I wanted to do. The minute I saw a female-fronted rock n' roll band, that changed my life.

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

The beauty of letting marginalized people tell their own stories is it isn't only the right thing to do socially, but it's also the right thing to do financially. People love the truth, and people like to spend money on the truth.

Gaga the person is much like Gaga the celebrity. She is very sweet, loyal, and funny with her fans, and she is very sweet, loyal, and funny with her friends. On stage, she is over-the-top, ridiculous, dirty, and genuine on stage, and she is very over-the-top, ridiculous, dirty, and genuine with her friends.

The larger streaming grows, the less money there will be to get the music out there, which, to me, is the sad part.

The Knife can't stop cloaking brilliant pop songs in voodoo jam blankets.

If you think of 'Chandelier,' Sia's singing her heart out about all those moments before she got sober, and that's one way to convey emotion and make people hear every word.

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