I don’t know whether when I was 20 years old or 25 years old if somebody would have come along with incredible wisdom whether I would have really listened.
BOY GEORGEThe world is less homophobic, depending on where you are in the world…
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I was unwelcome in the U.S. for four years.
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For me the most interesting thing about Leigh Bowery was the way he used his body as a style statement. He was a big guy, but, because he was tall and had long legs, he looked in proportion – even sexy – despite being overweight by conventional standards.
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Certainly for me, when punk exploded in the 1970s, it was just great. We had these wonderful clothes to wear.
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It’s quite nice that we can have almost direct contact with anyone in the world at any time. I don’t know how important it is in terms of one’s career. It seems to be pretty much superfluous in terms of that, but it’s nice to communicate.
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I’m a big Bob Dylan fan, a huge David Bowie fan… none of those people have orthodox, cabaret voices. These are people where what they’re singing about is just as important as how they’re singing it.
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The Taboo crowd was certainly less precious. They were happy to end up in a pile of vomit and booze at the end of the night. It was antifashion, in a sense. They were just as obsessive as the New -Romantics but they acted like they didn’t care.
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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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I’m not someone who can sing anything… And my favorite singers aren’t people whose voice you would say is amazing.
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I try to exist in a world where there is freedom of opinion, where you’re allowed to make jokes. I don’t want to live in some PC world where no-one’s allowed to say anything.
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Except for Courtney Love-who reminded me of that mad snake in The Jungle Book.
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Everything I think in life is about context and intention.
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You can partake of the buffet a little bit more than you should, so you have to have a routine.
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So much happened in that 10-year span. There were so many musical revolutions. Some were happening at the same time.
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I’m always tweeting about food and things that I’ve made.
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I think these days, as an artist, you have to be slightly entrepreneurial. …Nobody really sells records anymore.
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