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 GEORGEThe band never actually split up – we just stopped speaking to each other and went our own separate ways.
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The fabulous side of Taboo was dressing up and dancing like no one was watching you. There were no rules.
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I just remember the audience looking really horrified because Rosie [O’Donnell] was trying to sell the show as sort of Pippin and Annie. She was saying it’s a family show.
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The best thing you can do is work on your personality because we’re all gonna get ugly.
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Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance.
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I just go in my back garden. It’s the only place where people don’t come and bother you.
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Everything I think in life is about context and intention.
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I cried. I absolutely wept, because it wasn’t the usual stuff like, “Oh, he was a drug addict and he did this and that…” It was really looking at the music and it was really complimentary. It was a huge thing.
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Personality is a real aphrodisiac, when somebody is charming or funny. I think certain jobs attract certain types of people.
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Whenever there’s an interview with me, I might read it, but I don’t read the comments because they’re so hateful sometimes.
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I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.
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I like the big bombastic singers, but I’m also very drawn to what I call character singers.
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When I first went to New York, I didn’t really go out to clubs. It was the height of Culture Club so I didn’t really have a social life. It was only after I had been to New York a few times that I started going out.
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For me with “The Apprentice,” it kind of blew out my business brain. I don’t really think of myself as a business person.
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Except for Courtney Love-who reminded me of that mad snake in The Jungle Book.
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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.
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