Perfume Genius Quotes

If there's anything I think that you've seen about me, it's that I'm the rebellious girl.

There's a rebel lying deep in my soul.

I think I always had, like, a rebellious spirit. But it wasn't a rebellious spirit to do wrong. It was a rebellious spirit to do something different.

I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.

I think every girl has a little bit of rebellion inside. It's always fun to not follow every trend and not be the perfect good girl. It's edgy to be a little rebellious.

A rebel. That was me when I was younger. What was a rebel from New Jersey? A rebel was moving to the Village, not sleeping with top sheets, not eating a hot breakfast in the morning, not having 20 rolls of toilet paper and 10 boxes of Kleenex.

Me, I like to go against the grain.

I tend to be drawn to characters who are not rule followers, who behave in unexpected and unusual ways.

That's a good way to live, go against the wind.

Now I'm old... maybe I'm still an eccentric hippie. There's a wonderful freedom in the eccentricity - you can go places, you can be wacky, and you don't have to be constrained. I think that's why people are eccentric - eccentricity is a weapon... and it's great!

I'm willing to be different than other parents and go against the mainstream.

When I was in my teens and twenties, I could see friends expressing how radical they were, and I envied them, the way they lived, the way they dressed. Maybe there is a part of me that is reserved, even in rebellion.

I've always been in a rebel.

I was a bit of a rebel.

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.

I grew up in the Bible Belt and I made my own clothes and dyed my hair purple. Nobody ever knew what to do with me.

I have a bit of a rebellious nature.

I'm a bit of a rebel, and I always will be.

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

That's a difficult question, because to consider yourself a rebel is sort of ridiculous.

I'm not trying to be some kind of underground renegade.

Whatever is conventional, I am the opposite. So if you want to walk in a straight line, I am going to walk in zigzags. If you want to throw a 1-2, I'll throw a 2-1.

I went through this rebel period where I didn't want to dress up.

I'm like a renegade and that rubs people wrong.

We do not support people who are anarchistic, opportunistic, adventuristic, and Custeristic.