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Perfume Genius

Profession : Musician

Birth : September 25, 1981

I do not work out regularly, but I do dance so much and jump around so much on stage, and I do it every day, so I feel like that's my exercise.

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Blushes are fun. I like to do circles - like a Caravaggio painting almost, or Victorian looking.

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For me, piano is just where I started; I know where to go with it.

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My mom is always asking why can't I make something nice? Because I'll make paintings, say, and they're just really bloody and angsty. So I wrote 'Dark Parts' because I wanted to write something nice for her.

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I wanna be bad sometimes - I wanna rip everything apart, -but it comes on less and less. Doing all this music stuff is very good for it.

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I realise there are situations where I camp it up, make myself into a sort of novelty character to ease things along. Like, if I ever feel uncomfortable in a situation, I can just make myself into this funny Will-and-Grace-guest-star type of person, and maybe people will not pay attention to the deeper things going on.

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I originally thought I'd grow up to be a woman. I didn't question that when I was little.

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Sometimes I'm not into being a human.

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The first record I bought was the 'Edward Scissorhands' soundtrack. I remember being really obsessed with the movie, and all the campiness sort of went over my head because I was so little - it's the same with 'Hairspray.' But I would listen to that soundtrack a lot.

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I was really scared of the devil growing up: I was convinced I was going to be possessed.

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When I first started making music, I wrote the lyrics first, but now, because the music has got kind of wilder, I've flipped it.

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Good catsuits should have multiple zippers; they'll have a top and a bottom one.

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I'm personally not a very contact-y person; I just let my phone die and don't turn it on for a couple of days.

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I went off at a person who threw a plastic thing at one of my shows once. After I shamed them, I realised it was a little lipstick and felt bad for days.

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I got very serious about micro-piglets and what it would be like to own them.

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He was my biggest crush when I was 12, and it's never really stopped. I was on BenAffleck.com a lot growing up. I don't know why.

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I like Costco. They got me to be an executive member, so I'm, like, a business class member. Somehow, I'm going to end up saving money or something. The thing is, I don't moderate very well, so I buy things that are supposed to be for a family or last for a week, but they never do.

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I feel like my shows have always been a place where people can wear and be and seem however they want, and it's a heartening event.

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I'm always 20 minutes ahead of myself in my head. But being present - it's beautiful when it happens.

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I was a bad student. My teachers gave up trying to teach me how to read music.

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