Perfume Genius Quotes

I just think I've always been sensitive and had difficulty containing my feelings, and I've always searched for outlets for that, because otherwise those feelings come out in chaotic ways that aren't always great.

Part of the problem with America is that letting go of emotions is viewed as a weakness, but it's my strength. That enabled me to write my songs.

I'm very emotional. I do feel stuff, for better or worse.

I'm very sensitive and I'm quite a soft person, and I cry a lot when things upset me.

I have been able to tap into all the negative things that can happen to me throughout my life by numbing myself to the pain so to speak and kind of being able to vent it through my music.

I don't pay attention to how I feel about anything.

Mostly in life people are trying not to have emotions.

Emotion is a broad spectrum and I just been to a lot of sides of my own emotions.

I'm not very good at talking about my emotions.

I'm an emotional gangster. I cry once every month.

I'm an emotional person. Sometimes I can't help it.

I've always been a very passionate, sometimes overly emotional person. Sometimes things affect me more than they should.

I react emotionally to everything!

I'm very free with all my emotions, whether it's happy, sad, mad, glad, whatever.

When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.

I'm really out of touch with myself emotionally. I've always had a hard time talking about how I feel.

I cry a lot when I feel empathy. I can feel heartbroken by life, and I cry quite easily, sometimes for no reason. It's healthy, I think.

I've always been one of those people that, if I am angry, I just hold it in. And I always kind of, like, wrote it in a song and put it aside for myself because it helps me get it out. It's almost like exercising; it's almost like that for me.

I'm an emotional person; I do occasionally shed a tear.

There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself.

My YouTube channel is kind of a library of all my issues I've lived with. To process it emotionally, it's been good and bad.

I'm really, really emotional.

It's not that I want to necessarily avoid my darker moments, but I don't capitalize them and put a crown on them and tote them around as the answer anymore.

What made me empathic was my depressions.

I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that's how the album came out so dark.