Quotes from Genesis P-Orridge

To sell yourself is somewhat debasing, and everyone is selling something.

The great irony was that, while I was being portrayed as a monster, I was in Khatmandu with my children, doing soup kitchens for Tibetan refugees, using all the money from my records to feed three hundred people a day, and working with monks connected to the Sammye Ling Buddhist centre in Scotland.

I was very good friends with Ian Curtis from Joy Division. In fact, I was the last person he spoke with before he died.

People say, ''I'm a woman trapped in a man's body'' or ''I'm a man trapped in a woman's body,'' but I say ''I'm trapped in a body.''

Human beings are not capable of creating a thought that truly conceives of this existence. Nobody knows if we are really here, alive, or anything. It's a mystery.

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.

The great irony was that the punks were more conservative and narrow-minded and musically bigoted that anyone else.

We all fall into biological and mental habits. It's an easy way for us to navigate day-to-day work and life, but it also doesn't do us any favours in terms of growing into wisdom, growing into a greater understanding of each other, growing into a deeper relationship - all the things that we really crave.

If we confound and break up the proposed unfolding the world impresses upon us, we can give ourselves the space to consider what we want to be as a species.

In the art world, sentimentality and intimacy and the emotive side of lives are considered very uncool. There's nervousness around intimacy.

There's a moment for everybody when you look at that picture of Jesus in the church and think, 'This doesn't totally make sense.' If God made everything, then who made God? We have no idea.

I have no idea what's going on in the fashion industry.

We must embrace unity, not separation - sharing, go back to small, caring communities. Unity, not separation, is what has to happen.

We should always be looking for the unity in things instead of the differences.

I believe in being completely open to the most unlikely explanation.

Things don't happen in a vacuum, and artists don't make work in a vacuum.

Every few years, you have to change your strategy. You have to look at how the world is mutating, and mutate. Not in the same way but in parallel.

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.

I think, with TG, in our own ways, we have been committed to the idea of evolution on some level and change on some level - that human behaviour may not be changeable, but one has to try and be optimistic and work towards content that might signify change.

The human body is not the person. Identity is the way the brain operates; it's memories, it's sensory input and output. The mind is the person.

Humanity is a virus.

England was very frustrating in the Seventies for anyone who was trying to wake up. It was visible in punk, in clothes, and in the revival of mods and rockers fighting. All kinds of things were going on that just weren't individual to myself.

All culture, all important culture, is always linked to how people express and experience being alive.

I was born in Manchester, England.