Antony and the Johnsons Quotes

I started performing in nightclubs in New York City, late night performances in clubs, singing, always singing and then doing some sort of theatric spectacles with other people who were like me, a little bit more punk, but always doing music, sometimes doing a few plays, i did some experimental plays, i used to write musicals, in the tradition of John Waters but more tragic, modelled after [John Water's] Female Trouble...
Antony [Antony Hegarty]

I was doing late night performances in night clubs. It was an education whiling away the years... I was singing and dancing with a big gaggle of drug addicts and transsexuals and prostitutes. We'd all just get together and do a show! We'd dress down for the stage and up for the street!
Antony [Antony Hegarty] 

The band is a sort of a loose garment for me, it's a changing group of people, i work with a lot of different musicians in New York... It's become a very open entity so right now the Johnsons are just one boy i play with, in New York i work with a few string players who have been very important in the creation of the record, Maxim Moston, Julie Kent and Joan Wasser. But you know, it sort of changes. I met them all in New York through the musical work there.
Antony [Antony Hegarty] 

I think with anyone you write with the sum of your experience and that includes the things you admire in other peoples work. 
Antony [Antony Hegarty]

I really like Otis Reading, Nina Simone, little Jimmy Scott and I love my friend Billy Bazinski, he's an ambient composer.
Antony [Antony Hegarty] 

I'm an immigrant. I'm interested in American identity. I live in New York and that's kind of a special case. I wouldn't stay in America if I wasn't there. It's an immigrant city and I love it so much.
Antony [Antony Hegarty]