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.
BOY GEORGEWhenever there’s an interview with me, I might read it, but I don’t read the comments because they’re so hateful sometimes.
More Boy George Quotes
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You have to watch what you eat.
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I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.
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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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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.
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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 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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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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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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I’d got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.
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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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Part of me looks at the gay movement now and worries that we’re losing our individuality.
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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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I think for me one of the big things was realizing that being Boy George is my job. It’s what I do.
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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.
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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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