A lot of people felt I was getting work because I was Boy George. My response at the time was that there’s a lot of DJs making records, they’re not all making good records, but they have the right to do that.
BOY GEORGEMy family knew I was gay when I was 15, long before I got famous. But it’s a very different thing coming out to your family and coming out to the universe. That’s a big step.
More Boy George Quotes
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The most political thing you can do is be yourself
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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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After half an hour the drug hit me like a sensuous tidal wave. I turned into a tactile temptress and wanted to stroke the whole world. It gave me untold confidence.
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I don’t get all this Speedo stuff actually, I mean, whatever happened to the feather boa?
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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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I knew style and content went hand in hand.
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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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You find out so many interesting things when you’re not on drugs.
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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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[Arnold Schwarzenegger] is really good at [‘The New Celebrity Apprentice’ show]. Totally different energy to our potential president, but he’s cool.
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I was unwelcome in the U.S. for four years.
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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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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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For me, I’ve gotten better at that since I’ve gotten older. I never was good at that when I was younger.
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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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