Sebastian Horsley

I don't think I'm known for my gifts - I'm known for my gall. I don't want to be just a famous…

— Sebastian Horsley

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

— Sebastian Horsley

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

— Sebastian Horsley

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

— Sebastian Horsley

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

— 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

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

— Sebastian Horsley

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

— Sebastian Horsley

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

— 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 think you are born, and I think you die. I have a pragmatic nature, but I yearn to believe.

— Sebastian Horsley

If someone thinks I'm posh, it just shows how lowly they are. Some people think I went to Eton. I'm far too…

— Sebastian Horsley

Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth, and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be.

— Sebastian Horsley

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

— Sebastian Horsley

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

— Sebastian Horsley

I am not an intellectual. An intellectual is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso, whereas I just say…

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

— Sebastian Horsley

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

— Sebastian Horsley

There's a lot of noise about me that stops a lot of people from listening, but the good side is if you…

— Sebastian Horsley

One of the many troubles of growing older is that it gets progressively harder to find a famous historical figure who hadn't…

— Sebastian Horsley

I didn't want to tell Mother I worked as a journalist. She thought I was a prostitute. Locking yourself in a room…

— Sebastian Horsley

I used to have about a hundred suits in my late twenties and early thirties when my stock was riding high and…

— Sebastian Horsley

I don't really know what Americans are like. I've no idea. I know a few things about them. In my imagination, they…

— Sebastian Horsley

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

— Sebastian Horsley