A Quote by Perfume Genius
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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My brother Carl taught me how to play bass. I'm a self-taught keyboard player, though - I figured out our harmonies at the piano.
I always thought success was from inside, so it was how diversified you were as a person and how cultivated or how much you cultivated yourself.
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