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 GEORGEI think these days, as an artist, you have to be slightly entrepreneurial. …Nobody really sells records anymore.
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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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You have to watch what you eat.
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I suppose I was seen more as an elder statesman because I had been around the London club scene for so many years. To the Taboo crowd I was really seen as a pop star, someone famous.
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My mother and father were fantastic, very active. I find it difficult to say this, but I’m quite a loving person and I’ve always been loving to my friends. In the long run, that pays off. I’m very interested in other people, and if you are, they’re interested in you.
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I am what I am. There’s nothing I can do about it.
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What’s really sad is that a lot of very talented people are being forced to do things that are very embarrassing and I don’t intend to be one of them.
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The band never actually split up – we just stopped speaking to each other and went our own separate ways.
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I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.
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As a gay man I feel very strongly about those issues around the world – there’ve been huge changes and developments, but there are still places where things are scary.
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Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance.
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When you’re younger, you think you’re in competition with everyone. You think everyone’s success is a threat to you, and this is a thing you grow out of.
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I’m always being inspired .
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One door closes and another one opens.
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You find out so many interesting things when you’re not on drugs.
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In writing the autobiography, I can really chuckle when I look at the songs. I was acting out the part. I saw myself as a victim.
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