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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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I think these days, as an artist, you have to be slightly entrepreneurial. …Nobody really sells records anymore.
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Artist Nobody Records Thinking
I find that most people [in social media] just want me to say “happy birthday” to their mom or wish them good luck with their exams.
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Good Luck Media Mom
When Culture Club broke up, I hadn’t been going out a lot because we’d been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London.
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House Kissed Leisure London
A lot of what I’ve been learning in the last two years is due to therapy – about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven’t worked. It isn’t anything to do with anybody else; it’s to do with me.
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Lasts Relationships Therapy Two Years
She’s probably in denial that she’s a great big ball of insecurity and I’m quite well aware that I am one.
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Balls Big Denial Insecurity Probably
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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Behind Happening Punk Revolution Some
I have the best job in the world. There’s not really a lot to moan or whine about. I’ve got the privilege of going out and doing something I absolutely love.
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Absolutely Best Jobs Really Something
His designs were often breath-taking, but it was the way he used his body that was so utterly new and refreshing.
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Breath Designing Refreshing Talking
Except for Courtney Love-who reminded me of that mad snake in The Jungle Book.
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Book Courtney Except Jungle Love Snake
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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Animation Care Crowds Night Obsession
You get the odd person [in social media] that will write something nasty and the trick is not to engage with them on any level.
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Levels Media Writing
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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Big Everything Maybe People Without
I think we grow into ourselves. And unfortunately we do it in the spotlight, so when we make mistakes, everybody knows about it.
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Mistake Spotlight Thinking
The idea that gay people have to mimic what obviously doesn’t work for straight people any more… I think is a bit tragic. I am looking forward to gay divorces.
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Divorce Forward Mimic More People Straight
Part of me looks at the gay movement now and worries that we’re losing our individuality.
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Gay Individuality Worry
Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance.
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Appearance Drama Looks

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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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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