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

Justin Tranter

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A little makeover never hurt nobody.

little nobody never hurt

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

room big you world

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

never you hope sorry

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.

amazing city you be-kind

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.

me women music love

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

me music serious people

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!

day great mother work

My existence is rock n' roll.

roll rock existence

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.

struggle song love people

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.

thought news gun time

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.

feeling gun feelings time

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.

looking someone think me

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

famous-people famous work people

Good art should be polarizing.

good good-art should art

I don't like labels.

like labels

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

i-am music sea writing

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

love-songs songs stone love

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

mouth more choice people

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

because me friends inspire

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

women stars business people