Perfume Genius Quotes

I'm not trying to live anybody else's life.

I don't like defining myself. I just am.

I can be whoever I want. I can feel however I want.

In a way, the most political thing you can do is be yourself.

I do only what I like. If we do something we don't like, we will become someone else.

There are two metaphors for Mario the person and not Mario the footballer. I think I am a man, but I don't believe I need to say it. But I could also be Peter Pan because I do things my own way and I am free. So, yes, maybe I should say that I am Peter Pan - although I am much more of a man.

I just want to be myself and go for my own dreams and goals.

If you feel inside you are a woman, be a woman - no one can take that away from you, man. No one can make that feeling go away. If that's what you need to do to be complete, then no one has the right to tell you you can't do that.

But for everyone, I think, there is always a pressure to conform, and I guess as you get older you realize it's less interesting to do that. It starts with you, though, saying, 'I know what I like doing and that's what I'm going to do.'

I love people that willfully defy what you're supposed to be and create their own definition of their selves.

I don't want to be the next anyone. I just want to be me, now. And that means all different things.

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

The way I live is really me.

We don't want power, we don't want to be congressmen, bankers, we want to be ourselves.

For each person, they live their life and their truth and how it works for them, and that's just kind of how it works for me. I'm not good at doing whatever the other way is - it wouldn't work for me.

I think I've claimed the right to be any version of me that I want to be.

I do what I want. Everybody does what he likes. What is so unique about it?

I think everyone should be their own individualized person.

I don't want to be Boogie. I just wanna be DeMarcus.

You make yourself be whatever the hell you want to be, at the end of the day.

What I try to pass on in my work for everyone is that we can be who we want.

I always have to be me.

I am not interested in changing who I am to fit someone else's idea of what a category should be or look like.

To transcend and be yourself... I have no reason to tell you, and others, something that is not of interest to you.

At the end of the day, l just want to be myself. I don't set out to be like anyone else.