The aesthetic came along the way I think - just through experimenting and going on tour and trying stuff out on stage having fun with it and not taking it too seriously. If I had a ballgown at home I'd wear it onstage. If I found something in a charity shop I'd wear it. That's where it grew from - just wanting to play dress-up.
The real violence is committed in the writing of history the records of the legal system the reporting of news through the manipulation of social contracts and the control of information.