Genesis P-Orridge

I am so sick and tired of being told what I'm supposed to look like!

My mind jumbles things, reassembles them, and plays with words without even being asked.

People have become obsessed with the greed of celebrity and self-branding and wanting to be known and recognized and succeed in some way, and they're not prepared to share and help each other.

Once you believe things are permanent, you're trapped in a world without doors.

The good thing about people who are corporate is that they're stupid. So they can be touching something that's precious or radical or special, and they miss the point completely.

That's really the whole point of art - it's to take something commonplace and draw people on a path so that, all of a sudden, they have a new impression of everything around them.

Girls together getting dressed up can be really good fun.

Any artist should stay challenged as long as possible.

The biggest way to say, philosophically, you'll never be part of a war is to look completely the opposite of anyone in a war.

Lady Jaye and I always thought black eyes were really sexy.

Lady Jaye dressed me in her clothes the first day we met. The love we had was so strong, we wished we could become one. Then we thought, 'Why shouldn't we?'

The gender is irrelevant; the identity is the one you should try and create for yourself by yourself, and the narrative of your own life becomes your own book.