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I was about 16 when punk started to happen. It was so exciting. You had a social depression going on in the U.K. There was a sanitation strike. London was really grim, gray. You had Margaret Thatcher coming in. It was a really revolutionary time.

Boy George

What happened during the previews of ‘Taboo’ [musical] was that it was the first time I’d ever been written about as a great song-writer.
BOY GEORGE

Drug Musical Song Writer
Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
BOY GEORGE

Long Distance Relationship Radiance Separation
When you’re younger, you think you’re in competition with everyone. You think everyone’s success is a threat to you, and this is a thing you grow out of.
BOY GEORGE

Competition Realizing Thinking
I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.
BOY GEORGE

Cups Sex Tea
I suppose all of those New Romantic clubs were quite up their own asses in a way. Well, Taboo was up its own ass in a different way, but not in terms of rules.
BOY GEORGE

Asses Clubs Different Romantic Way
The best thing you can do is work on your personality because we’re all gonna get ugly.
BOY GEORGE

Best Personality Things Ugly
Leigh [Bowery] would create fake guest lists and put the most ridiculous names on them – Joan Collins, or really naff soap stars who would never grace the door of Taboo.
BOY GEORGE

Doors Names Stars
I don’t get all this Speedo stuff actually, I mean, whatever happened to the feather boa?
BOY GEORGE

Actually Mean Speedos Stuff
The 1970s was probably the most exciting decade to be a teenager, from discovering Little Richard at the end of the 1960s to glam rock to punk rock to electro music.
BOY GEORGE

Discovering Rocks Sex Teenager
[Arnold Schwarzenegger] is really good at [‘The New Celebrity Apprentice’ show]. Totally different energy to our potential president, but he’s cool.
BOY GEORGE

Cool Different Energy President
I’m not responsible enough to have a dog – or a child.
BOY GEORGE

Children Dog Enough
The ultimate goal is to be more satisfied. I really don’t believe you get wiser because you get older. It’s a choice, perhaps not to take some things so seriously
BOY GEORGE

Believe Choices Goal Satisfied
I think for me one of the big things was realizing that being Boy George is my job. It’s what I do.
BOY GEORGE

Boys Jobs Thinking
Maybe without me, there wouldn’t be Adam Lambert. Without Bowie, there wouldn’t be me. Without Quentin Crisp, there wouldn’t have been Bowie. So everything is part of a big daisy chain.
BOY GEORGE

Big Everything Maybe People Without
You have to watch what you eat.
BOY GEORGE

Eat Good Health Property Watches
On Madonna: She’s a gay man trapped in a woman’s body.
BOY GEORGE

Body Culture Gay Men Woman

I was about 16 when punk started to happen. It was so exciting. You had a social depression going on in the U.K. There was a sanitation strike. London was really grim, gray. You had Margaret Thatcher coming in. It was a really revolutionary time.

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I was about 16 when punk started to happen. It was so exciting. You had a social depression going on in the U.K. There was a sanitation strike. London was really grim, gray. You had Margaret Thatcher coming in. It was a really revolutionary time.

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