Genesis P-Orridge

We all fall into biological and mental habits. It's an easy way for us to navigate day-to-day work and life, but it also doesn't do us any favours in terms of growing into wisdom, growing into a greater understanding of each other, growing into a deeper relationship - all the things that we really crave. ”

Curiosity is a great weapon for the artist. ”

To be an 'artist' is as much a calling from and to a divine service as becoming a physician, nurse, priest, shaman, or healer. ”

Even if the world outside is destroying itself and fragmented and paranoid and fearful, the job of the artist is to embrace and hold people and say, 'It's OK, be safe here.' ”

If we confound and break up the proposed unfolding the world impresses upon us, we can give ourselves the space to consider what we want to be as a species. ”

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

Why is there no cure for cancer? Because the medical industry doesn't want one! And the pharmaceutical industry doesn't want one! Because they would lose too much money! ”

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

The great irony was that, while I was being portrayed as a monster, I was in Khatmandu with my children, doing soup kitchens for Tibetan refugees, using all the money from my records to feed three hundred people a day, and working with monks connected to the Sammye Ling Buddhist centre in Scotland. ”