GENESIS P-ORRIDGE

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

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.

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

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

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

Girls together getting dressed up can be really good fun.

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

Imagination should always be treasured, even when it's slightly off-key.

My artwork is in order to seduce people into thinking.

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.

What's incredible with Trent Reznor is how he took all the alienation and the rejection of traditional rock and found a way to encapsulate it in a form that made the public finally get industrial music.

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.

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

We don't agree with Caitlyn Jenner deciding she is the spokesperson for trans people.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I refer to myself as 'we.'

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.

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?'