Perfume Genius Quotes

It's a weird dynamic - I guess there is a fine line between hope and sadness. Sometimes you can be feeling both at the same time.

When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape?

I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.

My problem is not that I see all 17 sides of any issue, but I'm equally passionate about all 17 sides simultaneously.

Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy.

I like characters who are contradictory.

Being human is being a lot of things at the same time.

The best ideas make you want to say 'yes' and 'no' in the same breath.

In contradiction and paradox, you can find truth.

Sometimes I wonder if the world is too interesting and too boring at the same time.

We must learn to live with contradictions, because they lead to deeper and more effective understanding.

Everything was good. But it was awful, too.

All blessings are mixed blessings.

F. Scott Fitzgerald has an indespensible quote: 'The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at once and still retain the ability to function'. Or, as I like to call it, 'O.J. killed his wife, and the police are corrupt.'

I always used to say when I was on television that I prefer to be on stage and when on stage I prefer to do television. Typical human condition.

I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.

When you see things upside down, the ego can be extraordinarily funny; it's absurd. But it's tragic at the same time.

Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is always complex.

I think we do good things and bad things, sometimes simultaneously - or they may be the same thing.

My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that.

The best characters are the ones that somehow manage to be both attractive and repulsive at the same time. If you do that, you're at the center of the universe - if you can find characters who are more ambiguous and can raise more questions than answers.

I always look for contradiction in a character.