A biography for Genesis P-Orridgehasn’t been written yet.
“I refer to myself as 'we.'”
“All the great artists illustrate their approach to life in the work they make.”
“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 met William Burroughs in 1971. I got his address through a magazine and went to London to spend time with him.”
“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.”
“To sell yourself is somewhat debasing, and everyone is selling something.”
“Humanity is a virus.”
“Humans have to realise they're not individuals but individual parts of the same organism, with responsibility to each other.”
“Everyone knows that when things are out of balance, things go wrong.”
“Life and art are inseparable.”
“'Pagan Day' was Alex Fergusson's idea. It was him that encouraged me to start making music again and start Psychic TV.”
“I've always felt that all the music I've made is psychedelic, including Throbbing Gristle.”
“When Lady Gaga wears a meat dress, it's meant to be controversial, but then it turns into money, and it's all fine.”
“I guess I'm dedicated to breaking every inherited mould I can in my private life.”
“Brian Jones had this really ethereal atmosphere around him.”
“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.”
“There is no distinction between reverence for existence and our senses and/or apathy.”
“My mind jumbles things, reassembles them, and plays with words without even being asked.”
“I think one of the gorgeous things about TG is that we will go from something amazingly serious and important and significant in terms of the world and life, and then do something ludicrous and absurd.”
“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.”