Perfume Genius Quotes

I put a song out for fun, from 'Lucky Them'... I wrote another one called 'Love Song.' I really liked that.

I wrote my first single, 'Keep Your Head Up,' and that's what got me on the radio and helped me develop a whole base around the country.

I believe in full albums, and whatever comes out of those full albums will come.

I started singing and writing songs since childhood and later started releasing my independent music.

I want to start recording and writing as soon as I can and get music that I love out as soon as possible.

When I did 'Ephorize,' I didn't know that later on I'd be releasing another album. It just came.

The first album is a special one for most bands or most artists in general. The first record is your whole life, and then after that you have a couple of months to write stuff and get it for the next record.

My primary goal is to be a solo artist releasing original music.

I love the creation process [of music] of it and then sharing it, so I think that was the shift. I never thought I was going to be on a label in general, I was like 'Oh, I wouldn't do that,' and then we ended up on the same label basically.

When you work on an album for three and a half years, you're kind of ready for it to get out there. To have your songs reach people.

I'm consistently recording and releasing stuff online or YouTube videos or whatever it is. I just don't know if it's going to be a full on, I'm the next Rihanna, or whatever. I'm not going for it to that level. But I love making music and I don't think I could stop if I wanted to.

I know that when I make a record like The Delivery Man as a contrast to even Il Sogno, this is going to reach a wider audience, because it communicates in that very direct way.

I actually quite like promo, which is quite odd for an artist, but recording's not the easiest thing.

At some point in my life, before I was gone, I wanted to make an album, even if it was for no reason other than posterity.

I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.

I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.

I'll always write music. Whether I release a record, whether I let the public hear it or not, I'm always writing music.

I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.

I've always wanted to make a record.

So that's what's going on right now, and I'm looking to put out an album within the next six months.

I'm still shocked when people say, 'You haven't done a studio record in 20 years.' I try to make excuses for it, but the truth is I just wasn't with it.

A whole album to one writer - now that would be really interesting.

When you're young, the goal is to have a hit. You get a little older and the goal becomes to get to make another record.

I hate the whole 'record your album, do your promo campaign, have a year off to write another album' pattern. As an artist, you should keep creating as much as you possibly can.

My first album came out in 1979.