It’s quite nice that we can have almost direct contact with anyone in the world at any time. I don’t know how important it is in terms of one’s career. It seems to be pretty much superfluous in terms of that, but it’s nice to communicate.
I think people could be a bit friendlier. The only real contact you have with people is when they’re annoyed if you’ve had a party – you know, it’s been a bit too noisy for them or something.
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.
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 George Quote - [Arnold Schwarzenegger] is really good at [‘The New Celebrity Apprentice’ show]. Totally different energy to our potential president, but he’s cool.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/arnold-schwarzenegger-is-really-good-at-the-new-ce.jpg)
![Boy George Quote - 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.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/you-get-the-odd-person-in-social-media-that-will-w.jpg)
![Boy George Quote - What happened during the previews of ‘Taboo’ [musical] was that it was the first time I’d ever been written about as a great song-writer.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/what-happened-during-the-previews-of-taboo-musical.jpg)