Genesis P-Orridge

Writing is a recording that you can cut up and reassemble. Sound is something you can cut up and reassemble. Film, video - you know, the main tools of culture - can all be cut up and reassembled. ”

In the old days, maybe we'd come across Captain Beefheart, buy a record, go, 'This is great!' and notice how his music is evolving, changing, and becoming more complex, more radical. And we would follow that progression and see it reflected in the alternative culture it came from. ”

All culture, all important culture, is always linked to how people express and experience being alive. ”

What's incredible with Trent Reznor is how he took all the alienation and the rejection of traditional rock and found a way to encapsulate it in a form that made the public finally get industrial music. ”

When the blues came out, it was something pure and undefined, but when all these white groups got hold of it, it became something else that didn't sound anything like the original. So you had Led Zeppelin doing their thing, which had come all the way from the blues. ”

You have an absolute right to translate poetry in any form with any sound. It's all up for grabs. ”

My artwork is in order to seduce people into thinking. ”

Pleasure is a cultural weapon. Use it wisely. ”

I've discovered the joys of happiness. ”

I was very good friends with Ian Curtis from Joy Division. In fact, I was the last person he spoke with before he died. ”