Genesis P-Orridge

Writing is a recording that you can cut up and reassemble. Sound is something you can cut up and reassemble. Film, video - you know, the main tools of culture - can all be cut up and reassembled.

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

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.

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.

It has always been my belief that creation, the making of 'art' in any medium or combination of mediums, is a holy act.

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.

My artwork is in order to seduce people into thinking.

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

When Lady Gaga wears a meat dress, it's meant to be controversial, but then it turns into money, and it's all fine.

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

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

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.

I refer to myself as 'we.'

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

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?'

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.

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

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.

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.

We were already, in 1981, bemoaning the fact that people were using certain accessorised ideas and images that they connected with us - sort of strange buildings and neo-fascist regimes and the 'dark side' of human culture.