Genesis P-Orridge

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

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

“I was born in Manchester, England.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“When the blues came out, it was something pure and undefined, but when all these white groups got hold of it, it became something else that didn't sound anything like the original. So you had Led Zeppelin doing their thing, which had come all the way from the blues.”

“Once you have a hit, it just becomes another old song.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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 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.”

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

“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.”

“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?'”

“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.”

“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.”