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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.

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Other, Concerned, Queer, Dishonest

Great music is just very clear. Sonically and lyrically, you understand the point of view, you understand the melodies, you understand the vibe, and you understand the lyric pretty damn quickly. To me, that doesn't make it 'less than' - it makes it 'more than.'

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Vibe, Melodies, Very, Lyrically

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

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Think, Big, I Think, Pop Stars

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!

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Line, Idea, Maybe, Dumbest

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

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Making, The Only Thing, Sure, Marginalized

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.

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Love, Beauty, Stories, Marginalized

A little makeover never hurt nobody.

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Never, Nobody, Makeover, Hurt

My fashion is inspired by Tina Turner and Sharon Stone.

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Sharon, Sharon Stone, Turner

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

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Love, Sharon, Monroe, None

I worked at a jewelry store to pay the bills when I first moved to N.Y.C., and I always loved the phrase 'Semi Precious.' So I wanted to just call the band Semi Precious, but my dad told it was kinda sissy, so I added Weapons.

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Added, Dad, Moved, Sissy

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.

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Love, Years, Paula, Annie

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.

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Gun, Felt, Awful, Glamour

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

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Always, Pop, Stevie, Iggy

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.

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Gaga, Obviously, Our, Visionaries

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

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Listening, Helping, Queer, Helping People

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.

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Makeup, Goal, Housewives, Midwestern

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

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Think, Precious, Been, Borderline

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

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Some, Rewarding, Ways, Interpret

Good art should be polarizing.

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Art, Should, Polarizing, Good Art

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.

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Before, Got, About, Sober

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.

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Love, Big, Through, Struggle

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.

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Gender, Skills, Most Amazing, Femme

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

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See, More, More People, Femme

In every school, there's always the kid who gets it the worst, and I was, for sure, that kid. Every time you had to get in a line that was boys and girls, it was like my worst nightmare. A lot of kids I know got made fun of for being gay; that was not my issue: I was just called a girl endlessly.

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Kid, Line, Endlessly, Every Time

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.

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Business, Boss, Color, Publisher

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

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Mouth, Lot, Filthy, Shoe

Under-sung vocals can be very sexy because of the intimacy, but they can be just as heartbreaking for the same reason.

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Reason, Intimacy, Very, Vocals

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.

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News, New, Gun, Weapons

If you listen to Semi-Precious Weapons' last single, 'Aviation High,' you can definitely hear that even in my old band, even in the songs I was writing then, the pop influence really started to take over.

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Influence, Listen, Aviation, Weapons

In the band Semi-Precious Weapons, I got to sing, wear, and say exactly what I wanted for ten years.

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Say, Wear, Exactly, Weapons

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