Music helped me, growing up: it very much felt like a companion and made me less lonely. — Perfume Genius Copy Share Image
When I first started making music, I wrote the lyrics first, but now, because the music has got kind of wilder, I've… — Perfume Genius Copy Share Image
I don't know if I could write a pop song without at least a little touch of bite in it, and it's… — Perfume Genius Copy Share Image
On the first two albums, I essentially began with lyrics and placed the music underneath or around the words. — Perfume Genius Copy Share Image
I wanna be bad sometimes - I wanna rip everything apart, -but it comes on less and less. Doing all this music… — Perfume Genius Copy Share Image
I feel like I've figured out the way that I can talk about things that are important to me and have my… — Perfume Genius Copy Share Image
I keep making the music I do because I feel very purposeful about making things that would be helpful or quell some… — Perfume Genius Copy Share Image
For a while, I thought I would maybe be a writer. But with music, I was such a nerd; I was really… — Perfume Genius Copy Share Image
I have this idea of myself that I decided when I was 12 about who I am and how I come across… — Perfume Genius Copy Share Image
I felt like an outsider, so listening to a bunch of outsiders' music like Bjork and Patti Smith made me feel better.… — Perfume Genius Copy Share Image
I like Feist's music because it's really smart, but it's really free and soulful at the same time. Sometimes you only get… — Perfume Genius Copy Share Image
I was a bad student. My teachers gave up trying to teach me how to read music. — Perfume Genius Copy Share Image
I started writing songs later in life because I just couldn't commit to it before. — Perfume Genius Copy Share Image
I'm very sensitive - I'll cry during every movie or commercial - but when it comes to my own feelings, I don't… — Perfume Genius Copy Share Image
If I'm not writing, I can download a newer album everybody's making a fuss about. But when I'm writing, I keep myself… — Perfume Genius Copy Share Image
I don't think I wrote my first song until I was 25. And then everything I wrote ended up becoming my first… — Perfume Genius Copy Share Image
I sort of trust myself as a musician to experiment more and to know when things are more effective when they're spare… — Perfume Genius Copy Share Image
I think the best mood for writing is a heavy feeling that's a little bit removed from you. Sometimes I feel very… — Perfume Genius Copy Share Image
Hymns have always sounded like sung spells to me. I never felt included in the magic of the God songs I heard growing up… — Perfume Genius Copy Share Image
I wanna be bad sometimes - I wanna rip everything apart, -but it comes on less and less. Doing all this music stuff is… — Perfume Genius Copy Share Image
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. — Perfume Genius Copy Share Image
I was really scared of the devil growing up: I was convinced I was going to be possessed. — Perfume Genius Copy Share Image
I like to have fun! And everything that's good for you is not fun, and that bores me. — Perfume Genius Copy Share Image
On the first two albums, I essentially began with lyrics and placed the music underneath or around the words. — Perfume Genius Copy Share Image
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… — Perfume Genius Copy Share Image
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. — Perfume Genius Copy Share Image
I feel kind of limited and locked into my body and brain - I'm not super into it all the time. — Perfume Genius Copy Share Image
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… — Perfume Genius Copy Share Image
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… — Perfume Genius Copy Share Image
I've known that people were racist and misogynistic and homophobic since I was very little. — Perfume Genius Copy Share Image
