Sebastian Horsley

The function of music is to release us from the boredom of existence.

— Sebastian Horsley

Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations.

— Sebastian Horsley

“But then, people always loathe those they have wronged.”

— Sebastian Horsley

I can count all the lovers I've had on one hand...if I'm holding a calculator.

— Sebastian Horsley

Self-pity is the most destructive of all narcotics.

— Sebastian Horsley

The motivation of all artists is 'Look at me, Mum'.

— Sebastian Horsley

Why shouldn't I be allowed to say stupid, outrageous things?

— Sebastian Horsley

I live my life like an open book, even though it's open on the wrong page.

— Sebastian Horsley

Getting old is horrible, but it is interesting . . . one of the things I've realized is that growing old is…

— Sebastian Horsley

If I want to dislike women, I should be allowed to. As it happens, I love them. Women to me are privately…

— Sebastian Horsley

I like fat girls. A woman can never be too poor or too fat. I'd take a poor fat girl over a…

— Sebastian Horsley

I do a lot of things for effect, which is not to say I am superficial, but that I know how to…

— Sebastian Horsley

Think of how many boring, blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretion of me.

— Sebastian Horsley

People either hate me or dislike me - but I realized that people aren't against you, they are for themselves. We're all…

— Sebastian Horsley

The problem I've got is that I really, really like drugs. I love everything about them. It is horrific being sober all…

— Sebastian Horsley

It's really interesting because 50 years ago, if you didn't wear a hat everyone looked at you. It just proves that everything…

— Sebastian Horsley

Everyone says Oscar Wilde was a dandy, but he wasn't - he was an aesthete. He took pleasure in food and stuff…

— Sebastian Horsley

You may look back on your life and accept it as good or evil. But it is far, far harder to admit…

— Sebastian Horsley

My only criticism about Quentin Crisp is that the subversive must be ready to subvert themselves. I may dress for myself, but…

— Sebastian Horsley

I am desperate for attention. But everyone else is too. Everyone has fantasies of fame and greatness. Life for most people is…

— Sebastian Horsley

An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to…

— Sebastian Horsley

I keep the shutters closed because I like to work in a hermetic environment. I like mirrors. When you look out of…

— Sebastian Horsley

My theory is that the way you cope with the depths will ascertain the heights that you reach - they are intimately…

— Sebastian Horsley

It's better to be quotable than honest, I don't speak, I quote. I am a fraud. I have cobbled together my personality…

— Sebastian Horsley

You may look back on your life and accept it as good or evil. But it is far, far harder to admit…

— Sebastian Horsley

But really death seems the least awful thing that can happen to someone

— Sebastian Horsley

My one concession to American sensibilities was to remove my nail polish.

— Sebastian Horsley

I like to remind myself that every morning I'm making a choice to live.

— Sebastian Horsley

The problem with compassion is that it is not photogenic.

— Sebastian Horsley

I regret everything. But so what? At least I have cause.

— Sebastian Horsley

I don't talk, I quote. I can't help it. It's better to be quotable than honest.

— Sebastian Horsley

I have wanted only one thing to make me happy. That thing is everything.

— Sebastian Horsley

I consider myself to be very correct and proper: an upright citizen.

— Sebastian Horsley

I might be old, but I'm still desirable.

— Sebastian Horsley

People who have a reputation for being evil are usually good.

— Sebastian Horsley

[…] life is just the misery left between abortion and euthanasia […]

— Sebastian Horsley

I am half-Byronic, half-moronic; part-shaman, part-showman.

— Sebastian Horsley

If I hear that people are litigious, I immediately dismiss them.

— Sebastian Horsley

A woman is supposed to have curves like an old Bentley, not like some old bike.

— Sebastian Horsley

To be worthy of assassination takes more than some crappy little book.

— Sebastian Horsley