Most of my influences are from the past.
BOY GEORGEIt’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.
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I’d got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.
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I’m not responsible enough to have a dog – or a child.
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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.
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On Madonna: She’s a gay man trapped in a woman’s body.
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I think of myself more as a creative-type person, but it’s quite nice to be challenged physically and mentally.
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The Taboo crowd was certainly less precious. They were happy to end up in a pile of vomit and booze at the end of the night. It was antifashion, in a sense. They were just as obsessive as the New -Romantics but they acted like they didn’t care.
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I don’t know whether when I was 20 years old or 25 years old if somebody would have come along with incredible wisdom whether I would have really listened.
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I think for me one of the big things was realizing that being Boy George is my job. It’s what I do.
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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.
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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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I was unwelcome in the U.S. for four years.
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I try to exist in a world where there is freedom of opinion, where you’re allowed to make jokes. I don’t want to live in some PC world where no-one’s allowed to say anything.
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If I ever commented on one of his outfits he would snip, “Oh, thank you, Mr. Boy George. I do value your opinion.” And then he would spin and make some ridiculous noise and mince off.
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I think being individual in the show business is what gives you life and longevity.
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I am what I am. There’s nothing I can do about it.
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