The band never actually split up – we just stopped speaking to each other and went our own separate ways.
BOY GEORGESomeone once said a cynic is just a disappointed romantic. That really, really sums me up.
More Boy George Quotes
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You have to watch what you eat.
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You’re lucky if you reach the point where you go, “OK, I have a wonderful life …I fly around the world, stay in beautiful places, people are generally quite sweet to me, what’s to complain about?” But I think you have to get there…
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I cried. I absolutely wept, because it wasn’t the usual stuff like, “Oh, he was a drug addict and he did this and that…” It was really looking at the music and it was really complimentary. It was a huge thing.
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Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance.
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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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I’m not responsible enough to have a dog – or a child.
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Certainly for me, when punk exploded in the 1970s, it was just great. We had these wonderful clothes to wear.
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Madonna is a “living, breathing cash register.”
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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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My 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.
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Leigh [Bowery] would create fake guest lists and put the most ridiculous names on them – Joan Collins, or really naff soap stars who would never grace the door of Taboo.
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You had disco going on behind punk. You had Michael Jackson. You had the Sex Pistols.
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I exercise. I go to the gym every day. It’s about respecting what you’re doing. You’re going on stage. You have to sleep. You have to be prepared.
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I’d got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.
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For me the most interesting thing about Leigh Bowery was the way he used his body as a style statement. He was a big guy, but, because he was tall and had long legs, he looked in proportion – even sexy – despite being overweight by conventional standards.
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