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Perfume Genius

Profession : Musician

Birth : September 25, 1981

I don't think art matters as much as keeping people safe.

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I feel kind of limited and locked into my body and brain - I'm not super into it all the time.

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I sort of trust myself as a musician to experiment more and to know when things are more effective when they're spare and when a song can hold up to a lot of different instrumentations. So I'm more willing to go for it.

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When I started to allow myself to not be locked into wearing men's clothes, things kind of opened up. It feels very kind to drape yourself in something that feels special.

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When I watch alien movies, I want to be the alien. I don't want to be the people that make first contact or anything; I just want to be that creature.

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I'm fairly dramatic.

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I'm just very self-conscious about the way I look. I really am embarrassed of it, because I wish I wasn't like that.

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I've definitely met some people that cultivated a masculinity that they taught themselves. I don't know how they figured out how to do it, but I couldn't.

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I feel like I've figured out the way that I can talk about things that are important to me and have my music and the way of performance be healing and be helpful.

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I have ended up on so many weird Men's Rights Twitter accounts filled with weird anime. I don't know. It's so bizarre to me that people can think that way, and so I feel like I can decode them or figure it out. But you can end up so grossed out.

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I don't think I've actually ever had cheesecake from the Cheesecake Factory. I've had the Steak Diane. I don't like cheesecake!

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The thing is everything is good at the Cheesecake Factory. Everything's good. It's science-based. It's a formula; there's math. It's all good!

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I think if you know one direction, then you can feel the other one. I don't think you can be truly, insanely joyous if you haven't ever felt the flip side of it.

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I don't ever necessarily feel masculine or feminine. I just feel... I don't know. Like, when I'm wearing women's clothes, it's not like I'm dressing like a lady, a woman; it's just like I'm doing whatever I want.

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I get in my own way a lot. I feel a lot more confident than I... am.

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To me, when something's really funny, there's, like, a wildness to it, and it's very close to the wildness of something potentially tragic or gross. It's all very close to each other when you have that extreme level of feeling.

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Usually, like, anyone that would adopt, like, 'masc,' period, to describe them - it's a very phony, stereotypical masculinity.

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On the first two albums, I essentially began with lyrics and placed the music underneath or around the words.

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Honestly, I just wear what makes me feel good. It becomes political when you leave the house without changing.

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Any tragic memory I have I also think is really funny. On any given day, I can think about how horrible something is and also how ridiculous and over-the-top it is.

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