I suppose all of those New Romantic clubs were quite up their own asses in a way. Well, Taboo was up its own ass in a different way, but not in terms of rules.
BOY GEORGEI am what I am. There’s nothing I can do about it.
More Boy George Quotes
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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…
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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.
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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’d got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.
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One door closes and another one opens.
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My God is better than your God
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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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She’s probably in denial that she’s a great big ball of insecurity and I’m quite well aware that I am one.
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His designs were often breath-taking, but it was the way he used his body that was so utterly new and refreshing.
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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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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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I think we grow into ourselves. And unfortunately we do it in the spotlight, so when we make mistakes, everybody knows about it.
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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.
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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.
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Most of my influences are from the past.
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