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Someone once said a cynic is just a disappointed romantic. That really, really sums me up.

Boy George

I was unwelcome in the U.S. for four years.
BOY GEORGE

Four Unwelcome Years
I’d got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.
BOY GEORGE

Empty Felt Successful
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.
BOY GEORGE

Blessed Impart Listen Point Reach
I’m always tweeting about food and things that I’ve made.
BOY GEORGE

Always Food Made Tweeting
I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.
BOY GEORGE

Cups Sex Tea
The fabulous side of Taboo was dressing up and dancing like no one was watching you. There were no rules.
BOY GEORGE

Dancing Dress Up Hip Hop
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.
BOY GEORGE

Drug Half Sensuous Stroke World
Leigh [Bowery] would make up stories about people committing suicide or going on hunger strikes because they were refused entry at the door.
BOY GEORGE

Doors Hunger Strike Suicide
I just go in my back garden. It’s the only place where people don’t come and bother you.
BOY GEORGE

Bother Garden People
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.
BOY GEORGE

Around Country Famous More Pop Someone Taboo
Everything I think in life is about context and intention.
BOY GEORGE

Intention Life Thinking
I am what I am. There’s nothing I can do about it.
BOY GEORGE

About Myself Nothing
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

House Kissed Leisure London
I think for me one of the big things was realizing that being Boy George is my job. It’s what I do.
BOY GEORGE

Boys Jobs Thinking
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.
BOY GEORGE

Competition Realizing Thinking
The idea that gay people have to mimic what obviously doesn’t work for straight people any more… I think is a bit tragic. I am looking forward to gay divorces.
BOY GEORGE

Divorce Forward Mimic More People Straight

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