Remember that I was out of the closet at the age of sixteen. My parents knew I was gay; I’d had to tell them.
BOY GEORGEAnd it’s taken me the best part of 54 years to reach that point where I’m like, “I’m very lucky, I’m lucky, I’m blessed” – all of those things. I wish I could impart that to other people but I think when you’re young, you just don’t listen.
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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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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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On Madonna: She’s a gay man trapped in a woman’s body.
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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.
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The problem with being on the road – especially in a hot place like Florida – is that you can begin to think you’re on holiday.
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The New Romantic scene was so tiny. Although it got lots of mileage in the media, it was a really small club with only a core group of people. As it got more popular, kids started to come from the suburbs all dressed up, but it -really wasn’t as big as it looked.
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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 being inspired .
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Voting for New Labour is like helping an old lady across the road while screaming ‘Get a move on!’ Even the Tories, who you could once rely on to be completely heartless are pretending to care.
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My God is better than your God
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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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Except for Courtney Love-who reminded me of that mad snake in The Jungle Book.
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The world is less homophobic, depending on where you are in the world…
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And it’s taken me the best part of 54 years to reach that point where I’m like, “I’m very lucky, I’m lucky, I’m blessed” – all of those things. I wish I could impart that to other people but I think when you’re young, you just don’t listen.
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You have to eat at a certain time and eat properly.
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