Genesis P-Orridge

I met William Burroughs in 1971. I got his address through a magazine and went to London to spend time with him. ”

There's a moment for everybody when you look at that picture of Jesus in the church and think, 'This doesn't totally make sense.' If God made everything, then who made God? We have no idea. ”

My father enlisted at the age of 17. He lied about his age because he wanted to ride the fastest motorbikes, which were with the British army. ”

Change is not a linear process; it's an all-encompassing process, and it's alive in different ways. ”

Imagination should always be treasured, even when it's slightly off-key. ”

I would experiment with porridge - make porridge pancakes, fry porridge - and so friends started calling me 'Porridge.' But I got to feel that I was becoming a character, a work of fiction, in a sense. ”

Things don't happen in a vacuum, and artists don't make work in a vacuum. ”

Star Trek' works for me because it deals with the petty issues of humankind. ”

Somebody once asked me, 'What do you do?' and I flippantly answered 'I'm a cultural engineer.' With hindsight, I kind of am - but if I got too self-conscious about it, it wouldn't work. ”

Celebrity haircuts are one of the great perks of even a little media profile. ”