Perfume Genius: I want people to feel the freedom I feel when I make a song

"I want to stay here and feel everything, not just the oblivion. That’s what I thought that freedom was, and I actively pursued that when I was younger, whether I knew it or not. And maybe I’m becoming O.K. with just being at the edge, feeling the reach for it. I’m starting to realize that the reach is really what I want" - Perfume Genius told New Yorker about his new album 'Set My Heart on Fire Immediately'. He says he wants people to feel less lonely - "That’s what I hope people feel: that something unspoken, something hard to articulate, some tension, has been understood for four minutes. There’s something about sharing any sensation, even the deepest bleakness, that makes it less bleak".