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Banks said that the dogs “never harmed a child, a person, or another dog” until the September incident.

“I feel like Clark Kent — just a regular, humdrum, boring person that nobody notices. And then, through my art, I feel like people see what’s on the inside of me, and I become a beautiful butterfly.”

“One friend texted me something where some metal band was using the images of me being overly expressive — because I look like an insane person — to sell a T-shirt. A couple of days later, a friend showed me that I was on a flier for some show that AFI has nothing to do with. I was genuinely amazed and shocked at how far it was all going. It’s very curious.”

She knew she had picked the right person when people started to rave about how much they loved Byrne after Bronstein told them she was the star.

There is one person who turned her into the gold standard of pop — music executive Scott Borchetta, who signed her to his Big Machine Records label back in the day.