Perfume Genius Quotes

The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other.

I want to have not only the good side of life but the bad side of life. And the both combined is just my music. It's funny at the same time as it's sad.

Some really good things kind of swing both ways and I like to see people that can swing really, really, really sad and horrible and terrible and really, really, really beautiful and funny.

You have to feel the bad to be able to feel the good.

The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

I believe in joy, but I believe in the flip-side, agony.

You can't have an up without a down, a right without a left, a back without a front - or a happy without a sad.

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

If you want the beautiful moments to shine, you have to contrast that with dark and gruesome moments. That's the way life is.

If you win all the time, you lose the drama in life. To make the happy moments happy, you need the sad moments too.

I write about the dark and the happy.

Life, in all its uniqueness, would not be life without the negatives and the positives.

There is both joy and suffering on planet Earth because this beautiful world is a world of duality - a world of opposites. There is an opposite side to everything.

I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.

That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb.

I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay.

Life at best is bittersweet.

I've experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything you have to be at both ends of the spectrum.

I think of masculine and feminine energy like two sides to a battery. There's a plus side and a minus side, and in order to make something turn on, you need to have opposites touching. It's the same in relationships.

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

I've gone pretty high at times so I think the yin yang of that is going pretty low.

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

In every seed of good there is always a piece of bad.

I don't personally see my work as being dark. What interests me is a balance between light and dark.

There is nothing in nature wherein there is not good and evil; everything moveth and liveth in this double impulse, working or operation, be it what it will.