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I’m not someone who can sing anything… And my favorite singers aren’t people whose voice you would say is amazing.

Boy George

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
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…
BOY GEORGE

Beautiful Blessed Generally People Sweet
Except for Courtney Love-who reminded me of that mad snake in The Jungle Book.
BOY GEORGE

Book Courtney Except Jungle Love Snake
I find that most people [in social media] just want me to say “happy birthday” to their mom or wish them good luck with their exams.
BOY GEORGE

Good Luck Media Mom
The world is less homophobic, depending on where you are in the world…
BOY GEORGE

Depend Gay Homophobic Issues Men
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
Someone once said a cynic is just a disappointed romantic. That really, really sums me up.
BOY GEORGE

Cynic Disappointed Romantic Sums
I’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.
BOY GEORGE

Huge Important Orthodox People Singing
I just remember the audience looking really horrified because Rosie [O’Donnell] was trying to sell the show as sort of Pippin and Annie. She was saying it’s a family show.
BOY GEORGE

Family Horrified Looking Remember Show
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
The most significant New York club for me was Paradise Garage, where they played house music. This was around ’84 or ’85.
BOY GEORGE

Country House Paradise People
I think these days, as an artist, you have to be slightly entrepreneurial. …Nobody really sells records anymore.
BOY GEORGE

Artist Nobody Records Thinking
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
You have to eat at a certain time and eat properly.
BOY GEORGE

Certain Eat Properly
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.
BOY GEORGE

Levels Media Writing
When I first went to New York, I didn’t really go out to clubs. It was the height of Culture Club so I didn’t really have a social life. It was only after I had been to New York a few times that I started going out.
BOY GEORGE

Country Culture Going Out Life Social

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