Perfume Genius

Perfume Genius

25-Sep-1981


United States


Musician

Perfume Genius, a project by Seattle pianist and songwriter Mike Hadreas, has come up with piano-based myths of a mini-learning album (2010), especially Mr. Petersen. Hadreas suddenly acknowledged the good arrangements in Put Your Back N 2 It (Matador, 2012) for songs such as the otherworldly dilated AWOL Marine (a song crushed in the sense of the imminent apocalypse emerging) but his power remains the way he expresses his brutality, evoking writings of common deviation like a spare, slow, 17-year-old, anxious Hood, utterly depressed, crying All Waters. It was actually a lack of music that improved the game. The fact that you are not of any kind or style (just tone, mourning, frustration, anxiety) created a new kind.

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When something is heartwarming and triumphant, and not corny or preachy, it's such a powerful thing.

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.

I'm just doing what I want. I'm not thinking, like, 'Today I'm going to dress like a woman.' I'm not even thinking about that. I'm just thinking, 'I want to wear this today; I want to be this today.'

I think the best mood for writing is a heavy feeling that's a little bit removed from you. Sometimes I feel very self-indulgent and bratty and ungrateful, and no good music comes out of that. But sometimes I can be really sad or have an excess of feeling yet somehow be able to see the big picture more.

I'm really into gay stuff getting funded: having it be on TV and having a show.

If I drink coffee, I have to turn the lights off and lay down. I can't handle it.

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.

My mom is not religious, but she's a very spiritual, magical kind of lady. One time, when I was younger, my mom said she was a witch and that my grandmother was also a witch. It was late at night, and she was really sleepy, but I took it very seriously because I always wanted to go to Hogwarts.

I like Yoda. I like the Ewoks.

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