"I was 16 when the Riot! album came out, and only just started listening to music – in the Christian cult I’d grown up in it wasn’t allowed. I turned on my TV and on MTV there’s this girl with fiery red hair fronting a band with the strongest voice, dressed like a tomboy in a freakin’ graphic T-shirt and doing something boys normally do. I remember dancing on my bed to Crushcrushcrush, moshing so hard I probably broke something inside of me.
Later I changed my Twitter bio to ‘Rap Game Hayley Williams
“Hayley was 14 when she was signed. She gets what it’s like to be a young female in the music business. She says: ‘F**k that! Everything about you is genre defying. It’s not about appealing to a certain demographic. You’re gonna have to be strong for people who do get your message.’
“Actually, I’m gonna get Hayley’s signature tattooed on me, right on my sleeve arm."
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