Genesis P-Orridge Quotes

When punk really started to happen, it was a reaction against the disco craze of the time.

There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there.

So many big magazines just dissed the whole punk thing as nothing, but really, it was a big thing. It really changed, and that's what we wanted to do - change the system.

There's an irony about making a film about punk because punk isn't supposed to have feature films made about it.

When punk started, it wasn't subtle.

Punk became a circus didn't it? Everybody got it wrong. The message was supposed to be: Don't follow us, do what you want!

For years, young adults have adopted extremely liberal world views in their attempts to be different, ultimately failing to see the irony that they've all become the same.

I want to be a poster boy for the uncool.

In order to keep an open mind, I am trying to avoid learning anything.

The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness.

Ah yes! Conservatives. Some of the finest minds of the 12th Century.

Keep Hope alive, particularly if Hope is the name of a very cute puppy and not some ill-defined abstraction that is in fact code for big government.

Since it's now fashionable to laugh at the conservative French Academy, I have remained a rebel by joining it.

When I started making movies about weird people, I knew they were weird, I was infected with irony, and I wanted New York to notice.

David Bowie emerged as a rock star in the late '60s. And as Ken Tucker wrote, "In the face of the hippy era's sincerity, intimacy and generosity, Bowie presented irony, distance and self-absorption. His song 'Changes' announced the arrival of a new counterculture," unquote.

Mr. Doctor, that loose gown becomes you so well I wonder your notions should be so narrow.

I used to play a narcissistic-conservative pundit. Now, I'm just a narcissist.

On why he no longer went to Ruggeri's, a St. Louis restaurant: "Nobody goes there anymore because it's too crowded."

Don't try so hard to be hip. When the Church finds out what is cool, it is not cool anymore.

During the sixties, all the risk-type sports were very popular, because everybody was rebelling against their parents, or rebelling against the whole system. But those days are over. This is the day of conservatism.

It's so ironic that you often hear these right-wing people talking about the Constitution.

The beat generation is a coffeehouse full of people expectantly looking at their watches waiting for the beat generation to come on.

Hipsters seek refuge in church, Our Lady of Perpetual Subculture. There is some discussion as to whether or not they are still cool but then they are calmed by the obscure location and the arrival of their kind. Keep the address to yourself, let the rabble fund it themselves. Wow, this crappy performance art is really making me feel no so terrible about my various emotional issues.

I thought that punk in its original state was a revolutionary movement. But like surrealism, it failed in its revolutionary attempt.

A country of inveterate, backwoods, thick-headed, egotistic philistines