Have you seen, in your experience in the music industry, overt sexism or sexual harassment or sexual abuse? Is it a problem in the industry?

Yeah. You see this thing with Kesha. Look, when I was coming up, I remember going to see someone's engineer, and he masturbated in front of me. I wasn't a female recording artist. I was just a songwriter. So I didn't get a lot of that, to be honest. But that was enough. You think about these young girls coming up. It's so weird, the whole oversexualization. I was looking at a Rolling Stone, they did a thing on the '90s. They had a thing on Britney Spears. I'm looking at that, and it's really gross. She's like this schoolgirl, she was, like, 15. I don't know. At the time, I didn't think it was gross. But now I'm like, it's so sexualized. And they're, like, old men, older guys coming up with this marketing plan. She's 15. Do you know what I mean? Like, I didn't [used to] think of stuff like that. But now you look and you go, "Ugh." Those guys in a boardroom coming up with that. It's not women. Most women would be horrified.

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