Growing up Quotes by Perfume Genius

Hymns have always sounded like sung spells to me. I never felt included in the magic of the God songs I heard growing up…

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I wanna be bad sometimes - I wanna rip everything apart, -but it comes on less and less. Doing all this music stuff is…

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I'm just very self-conscious about the way I look. I really am embarrassed of it, because I wish I wasn't like that.

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I was really scared of the devil growing up: I was convinced I was going to be possessed.

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I like to have fun! And everything that's good for you is not fun, and that bores me.

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On the first two albums, I essentially began with lyrics and placed the music underneath or around the words.

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I think people have a hard time dealing with a bunch of things at once. They can't have something be disturbing and funny at…

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I'm personally not a very contact-y person; I just let my phone die and don't turn it on for a couple of days.

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I feel kind of limited and locked into my body and brain - I'm not super into it all the time.

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I wasn't a hoarder, but I was on my way. I went to thrift stores and never didn't buy something. A lot of cat…

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My mom is not religious, but she's a very spiritual, magical kind of lady. One time, when I was younger, my mom said she…

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I've known that people were racist and misogynistic and homophobic since I was very little.

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