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Change comes from reflection.

Change is not a linear process; it's an all-encompassing process, and it's alive in different ways.

Lady Jaye and I always thought black eyes were really sexy.

The biggest way to say, philosophically, you'll never be part of a war is to look completely the opposite of anyone in a war.

All the people at university were very aristocratic - except me, because I was on scholarship. And everyone there voluntarily wore suits and ties every day. And this was in the '60s!

Any artist should stay challenged as long as possible.

Humans have to realise they're not individuals but individual parts of the same organism, with responsibility to each other.

Mick Jagger is 70 and still singing 'Satisfaction' every concert. That would drive me insane.

Once you have a hit, it just becomes another old song.

Ian Curtis was a young genius.

The human body is not the person. Identity is the way the brain operates; it's memories, it's sensory input and output. The mind is the person.

Girls together getting dressed up can be really good fun.

I think, with TG, in our own ways, we have been committed to the idea of evolution on some level and change on some level - that human behaviour may not be changeable, but one has to try and be optimistic and work towards content that might signify change.

We were already, in 1981, bemoaning the fact that people were using certain accessorised ideas and images that they connected with us - sort of strange buildings and neo-fascist regimes and the 'dark side' of human culture.

The status quo is presented as something to aspire to, whereas for us, the status quo was something we wanted to shatter in order to create the space for people to choose for themselves.

I think one of the gorgeous things about TG is that we will go from something amazingly serious and important and significant in terms of the world and life, and then do something ludicrous and absurd.

The punk rockers said, 'Learn three chords and form a band.' And we thought, 'Why learn any chords?' We wanted to make music like Ford made cars on the industrial belt. Industrial music for industrial people.

What's incredible with Trent Reznor is how he took all the alienation and the rejection of traditional rock and found a way to encapsulate it in a form that made the public finally get industrial music.

The great irony was that the punks were more conservative and narrow-minded and musically bigoted that anyone else.

My father enlisted at the age of 17. He lied about his age because he wanted to ride the fastest motorbikes, which were with the British army.

Lady Jaye dressed me in her clothes the first day we met. The love we had was so strong, we wished we could become one. Then we thought, 'Why shouldn't we?'

We don't agree with Caitlyn Jenner deciding she is the spokesperson for trans people.

I refer to myself as 'we.'

That's really the whole point of art - it's to take something commonplace and draw people on a path so that, all of a sudden, they have a new impression of everything around them.

I have no idea what's going on in the fashion industry.

All culture, all important culture, is always linked to how people express and experience being alive.

The good thing about people who are corporate is that they're stupid. So they can be touching something that's precious or radical or special, and they miss the point completely.

When Lady Gaga wears a meat dress, it's meant to be controversial, but then it turns into money, and it's all fine.

We must embrace unity, not separation - sharing, go back to small, caring communities. Unity, not separation, is what has to happen.

My artwork is in order to seduce people into thinking.

Every few years, you have to change your strategy. You have to look at how the world is mutating, and mutate. Not in the same way but in parallel.

It has always been my belief that creation, the making of 'art' in any medium or combination of mediums, is a holy act.

To be an 'artist' is as much a calling from and to a divine service as becoming a physician, nurse, priest, shaman, or healer.

There's a moment for everybody when you look at that picture of Jesus in the church and think, 'This doesn't totally make sense.' If God made everything, then who made God? We have no idea.

Human beings are not capable of creating a thought that truly conceives of this existence. Nobody knows if we are really here, alive, or anything. It's a mystery.

Everything we do is art, philosophy, mysticism, cultural commentary.

Everything in our world tends to be built on either/ors, and either/ors inevitably make enemies.

Writing is a recording that you can cut up and reassemble. Sound is something you can cut up and reassemble. Film, video - you know, the main tools of culture - can all be cut up and reassembled.

To sell yourself is somewhat debasing, and everyone is selling something.

A lot of the conceptualists and the prestige galleries are debasing themselves in presentations which have little else to them but the presentation.

I met William Burroughs in 1971. I got his address through a magazine and went to London to spend time with him.

Once you believe things are permanent, you're trapped in a world without doors.

If we confound and break up the proposed unfolding the world impresses upon us, we can give ourselves the space to consider what we want to be as a species.

As a little boy, I never felt comfortable with being human.

I always felt that everything that happened was incredibly exhilarating and massively puzzling at the same time. I can even remember, when I was six or seven, digging a hole beneath a tree. And I would go into this tomb, this cave that I had made, and would lie there, meditating, for hours.

England was very frustrating in the Seventies for anyone who was trying to wake up. It was visible in punk, in clothes, and in the revival of mods and rockers fighting. All kinds of things were going on that just weren't individual to myself.

I would experiment with porridge - make porridge pancakes, fry porridge - and so friends started calling me 'Porridge.' But I got to feel that I was becoming a character, a work of fiction, in a sense.

'Pagan Day' was Alex Fergusson's idea. It was him that encouraged me to start making music again and start Psychic TV.

People have become obsessed with the greed of celebrity and self-branding and wanting to be known and recognized and succeed in some way, and they're not prepared to share and help each other.

Brian Jones had this really ethereal atmosphere around him.

Me and Lady Jaye hung out with Anita Pallenberg a few times in the house she lived in with Brian Jones.

In the art world, sentimentality and intimacy and the emotive side of lives are considered very uncool. There's nervousness around intimacy.

All the great artists illustrate their approach to life in the work they make.

Life and art are inseparable.

'Star Trek' works for me because it deals with the petty issues of humankind.

Pleasure is a cultural weapon. Use it wisely.

There is no distinction between reverence for existence and our senses and/or apathy.

I'm not a man trapped in a woman's body. I'm a brain trapped in a human body.

I was very good friends with Ian Curtis from Joy Division. In fact, I was the last person he spoke with before he died.

I've always felt that all the music I've made is psychedelic, including Throbbing Gristle.

I really feel that I've been unjustly exorcised from the story of psychedelic music.

I've had all my teeth replaced with solid gold replicas of the originals.

The body is simply the suitcase that carries us around.

We live in this miraculous technological environment, and yet our human behaviour is still governed by basic impulses from prehistoric times.

Haircuts are luxuries and, as such, should be as expensive as you can possibly afford.

Celebrity haircuts are one of the great perks of even a little media profile.

A real New Yorker is always someone who came here from somewhere else to avoid some kind of persecution, often sexual-preference based, or to be discovered in one of the infinite-though-no-longer-thriving alternative scenes, i.e. theater, music, dance, vaudeville, art, drag, or, in those of the greatest egos, to be 'the next Andy Warhol.'

My mind jumbles things, reassembles them, and plays with words without even being asked.

Everyone knows that when things are out of balance, things go wrong.

Humanity is a virus.

I was born in Manchester, England.

With Thobbing Gristle, that era from '75 to '81 was a period when the politics of the time demanded anger and rage.

There's always a way to say something that could seem really commonplace and make it special again.

Even if the world outside is destroying itself and fragmented and paranoid and fearful, the job of the artist is to embrace and hold people and say, 'It's OK, be safe here.'

My father gave me a copy of 'Seven Years in Tibet,' and that's what turned me on to Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism.

Why is there no cure for cancer? Because the medical industry doesn't want one! And the pharmaceutical industry doesn't want one! Because they would lose too much money!

Things don't happen in a vacuum, and artists don't make work in a vacuum.

Once you're looking for wisdom, you have to look at why things happen and why people behave how they do: you cannot, in all conscience, accept any form of prejudice.

We all fall into biological and mental habits. It's an easy way for us to navigate day-to-day work and life, but it also doesn't do us any favours in terms of growing into wisdom, growing into a greater understanding of each other, growing into a deeper relationship - all the things that we really crave.

Curiosity is a great weapon for the artist.

Imagination should always be treasured, even when it's slightly off-key.

You have an absolute right to translate poetry in any form with any sound. It's all up for grabs.

I am so sick and tired of being told what I'm supposed to look like!

When in doubt, make no sense. No sense is good. And nonsense is good.

Everyone is telling the truth all of the time... well, it's just that times change.

I guess I'm dedicated to breaking every inherited mould I can in my private life.

We should always be looking for the unity in things instead of the differences.

The gender is irrelevant; the identity is the one you should try and create for yourself by yourself, and the narrative of your own life becomes your own book.

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