Top 92 Quotes & Sayings by Justin Tranter - Page 2

People are always quick to judge SPW because of the fact that I wear heels. For me, I just have no choice. This is just how I feel beautiful and how I feel awesome. I would just be so uncomfortable onstage if I was wearing something else.

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.

I'm so grateful for my endless delusion.

I thought I was a superstar at 12.

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.

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.

A lot of writers don't know what it feels like to get on stage. They don't understand the weight that songs can carry. I got a chance to play all these shows. I got a chance to define myself through music, so when it comes to helping other people figure out what they should say, I've been through it.

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!

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

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.

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

I'm really proud of 'Kissing Strangers.'

I wouldn't want to write a song in a pair of sneakers. I think it would be a horrible song.

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

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

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

My existence is rock n' roll.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Before anything else, my favorite thing as a fan of music was to make up my own story as to what it means.

My success happened pretty late in life. I can't even believe it happened.

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.

My artist career failed pretty miserably multiple times.

A couple of days working with Joe Jonas, I thought, 'This guy is a slayer of a singer; he's really funny, goofy, and sexy. We need to write that.' And that led to 'Cake By The Ocean.'

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

I've experienced some really very obvious, direct homophobia - when I was still trying to be an artist, behind the scenes, being told to be less gay, be less feminine.

I just didn't really relate to Kurt Cobain. There was nothing very glamorous about him.

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.