Quotes from Genesis P-Orridge

I would experiment with porridge - make porridge pancakes, fry porridge - and so friends started calling me 'Porridge.' But I got to feel that I was becoming a character, a work of fiction, in a sense.

Even if the world outside is destroying itself and fragmented and paranoid and fearful, the job of the artist is to embrace and hold people and say, 'It's OK, be safe here.'

All the people at university were very aristocratic - except me, because I was on scholarship. And everyone there voluntarily wore suits and ties every day. And this was in the '60s!

My artwork is in order to seduce people into thinking.

Brian Jones had this really ethereal atmosphere around him.

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.

The body is simply the suitcase that carries us around.

We've always said Psychic TV's music is the sum total of who's in it at the time.

Everything we do is art, philosophy, mysticism, cultural commentary.

Any artist should stay challenged as long as possible.

All great music is in one way or another psychedelic.

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

As a little boy, I never felt comfortable with being human.

There's always a way to say something that could seem really commonplace and make it special again.

Curiosity is a great weapon for the artist.

When Lady Gaga wears a meat dress, it's meant to be controversial, but then it turns into money, and it's all fine.

Haircuts are luxuries and, as such, should be as expensive as you can possibly afford.

Within TG, we liberated the use of the lyric forever. There was no longer a taboo on what could be discussed in the conceptual format of a song.

A lot of the conceptualists and the prestige galleries are debasing themselves in presentations which have little else to them but the presentation.

Our identity is fictional, written by parents, relatives, education, society.

When in doubt, make no sense. No sense is good. And nonsense is good.

The status quo is presented as something to aspire to, whereas for us, the status quo was something we wanted to shatter in order to create the space for people to choose for themselves.

I guess I'm dedicated to breaking every inherited mould I can in my private life.

Change is not a linear process; it's an all-encompassing process, and it's alive in different ways.