Quotes from Justin Tranter

If a song I'm lucky enough to be a part of comes on the radio, it's definitely really cool and exciting, but I can't focus on anything but the song. Same if one of my songs comes on in a restaurant. I can't just carry on a conversation.

We really like L.A. because it really likes rock and roll.

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.

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.

All songwriters are known as 'topliners' because the vocal goes on top of the track.

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

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

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

The bullying was so bad that I got to go to the arts high school instead.

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

I thought I was a superstar at 12.

For me, as a kid desperate to make music, I thought the only way I could do it was to try to be a superstar - which is a fun thing to be, but it can be exhausting and degrading.

I was very lucky that my family really supported me in exploring my femininity when I was young, and so it was a joyous thing.

If a song is being written for a woman, there should be a woman in the room collaborating.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Good art should be polarizing.

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.

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

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

Even though L.A. can be kind of tacky, when a city's big draws are The Roxy and the Viper Room, you know its pretty amazing.