Voting for New Labour is like helping an old lady across the road while screaming ‘Get a move on!’ Even the Tories, who you could once rely on to be completely heartless are pretending to care.
BOY GEORGEI’m a big Bob Dylan fan, a huge David Bowie fan… none of those people have orthodox, cabaret voices. These are people where what they’re singing about is just as important as how they’re singing it.
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Everything I think in life is about context and intention.
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You can partake of the buffet a little bit more than you should, so you have to have a routine.
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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.
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For me, touring is about looking after myself.
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I am what I am. There’s nothing I can do about it.
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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.
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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’m always being inspired .
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The most significant New York club for me was Paradise Garage, where they played house music. This was around ’84 or ’85.
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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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I think these days, as an artist, you have to be slightly entrepreneurial. …Nobody really sells records anymore.
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As a kid, I would’ve loved to get a tweet from David Bowie or Joan Rivers or Tom Cruise. It’s great that you can communicate with people and it’s instant.
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You have to eat at a certain time and eat properly.
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Someone once said a cynic is just a disappointed romantic. That really, really sums me up.
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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.”
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