Quotes from Genesis P-Orridge

There is no distinction between reverence for existence and our senses and/or apathy.

We live in this miraculous technological environment, and yet our human behaviour is still governed by basic impulses from prehistoric times.

I've had all my teeth replaced with solid gold replicas of the originals.

Celebrity haircuts are one of the great perks of even a little media profile.

My father enlisted at the age of 17. He lied about his age because he wanted to ride the fastest motorbikes, which were with the British army.

Everything in our world tends to be built on either/ors, and either/ors inevitably make enemies.

I really feel that I've been unjustly exorcised from the story of psychedelic music.

I've always felt that all the music I've made is psychedelic, including Throbbing Gristle.

'Pagan Day' was Alex Fergusson's idea. It was him that encouraged me to start making music again and start Psychic TV.

The punk rockers said, 'Learn three chords and form a band.' And we thought, 'Why learn any chords?' We wanted to make music like Ford made cars on the industrial belt. Industrial music for industrial people.

I've always aimed to create something pure.

I met William Burroughs in 1971. I got his address through a magazine and went to London to spend time with him.

With Thobbing Gristle, that era from '75 to '81 was a period when the politics of the time demanded anger and rage.

Ian Curtis was a young genius.

Girls together getting dressed up can be really good fun.

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?'

Once you're looking for wisdom, you have to look at why things happen and why people behave how they do: you cannot, in all conscience, accept any form of prejudice.

the voluntary relinquishing of responsibility for our lives and our actions is one of the greatest enemies of our time.

Humans have to realise they're not individuals but individual parts of the same organism, with responsibility to each other.

My father gave me a copy of 'Seven Years in Tibet,' and that's what turned me on to Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism.

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.

I refer to myself as 'we.'

Everyone is telling the truth all of the time... well, it's just that times change.

In the old days, maybe we'd come across Captain Beefheart, buy a record, go, 'This is great!' and notice how his music is evolving, changing, and becoming more complex, more radical. And we would follow that progression and see it reflected in the alternative culture it came from.