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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.

Boy George

Gay unions, what is that about? I haven’t been invited to any ceremonies, and I wouldn’t go anyway.
BOY GEORGE

Divorce Gay Invited Thinking
Everyone loved the music but nobody liked the name. I -remember getting a postcard from Jon from L.A. saying, “I don’t think America’s ready for the Sex Gang Children.”
BOY GEORGE

Children Everyone Music Remember Sex
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.
BOY GEORGE

Almost Contact Important Superficial Term
I like the big bombastic singers, but I’m also very drawn to what I call character singers.
BOY GEORGE

Character People Special
I’d got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.
BOY GEORGE

Empty Felt Successful
I knew style and content went hand in hand.
BOY GEORGE

Content Hands Style
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 GEORGE

Country People Punk Revolutionary Sanitation Strike
So much happened in that 10-year span. There were so many musical revolutions. Some were happening at the same time.
BOY GEORGE

Behind Happening Punk Revolution Some
Taboo was kind of celebrating trash, the kind of records you secretly loved, like Yes Sir, I Can Boogie, by Baccara [laughs] – things that you probably shouldn’t like.
BOY GEORGE

Kind Laughing Records
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.
BOY GEORGE

Boys People Records Response Work
The problem with being on the road – especially in a hot place like Florida – is that you can begin to think you’re on holiday.
BOY GEORGE

Florida Holiday Thinking
I don’t get all this Speedo stuff actually, I mean, whatever happened to the feather boa?
BOY GEORGE

Actually Mean Speedos Stuff
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 think these days, as an artist, you have to be slightly entrepreneurial. …Nobody really sells records anymore.
BOY GEORGE

Artist Nobody Records Thinking
You can partake of the buffet a little bit more than you should, so you have to have a routine.
BOY GEORGE

Bit Little More Routine
Part of me looks at the gay movement now and worries that we’re losing our individuality.
BOY GEORGE

Gay Individuality Worry

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.

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