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The 1970s was probably the most exciting decade to be a teenager, from discovering Little Richard at the end of the 1960s to glam rock to punk rock to electro music.

Boy George

When you’re younger, you think you’re in competition with everyone. You think everyone’s success is a threat to you, and this is a thing you grow out of.
BOY GEORGE

Competition Realizing Thinking
I’m not responsible enough to have a dog – or a child.
BOY GEORGE

Children Dog Enough
Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
BOY GEORGE

Long Distance Relationship Radiance Separation
The idea that gay people have to mimic what obviously doesn’t work for straight people any more… I think is a bit tragic. I am looking forward to gay divorces.
BOY GEORGE

Divorce Forward Mimic More People Straight
Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance.
BOY GEORGE

Appearance Drama Looks
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 GEORGE

Asses Clubs Different Romantic Way
I am thinking of George Michael’s family, friends and fans. He was so loved and I hope he knew it because the sadness today is beyond words. Devastating.
BOY GEORGE

Beautiful Believe Devasting Sadness
I like the big bombastic singers, but I’m also very drawn to what I call character singers.
BOY GEORGE

Character People Special
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
Maybe without me, there wouldn’t be Adam Lambert. Without Bowie, there wouldn’t be me. Without Quentin Crisp, there wouldn’t have been Bowie. So everything is part of a big daisy chain.
BOY GEORGE

Big Everything Maybe People Without
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.
BOY GEORGE

Incredibles Old Somebody Years
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
You find out so many interesting things when you’re not on drugs.
BOY GEORGE

Drug Find Interesting Out Thing
Remember that I was out of the closet at the age of sixteen. My parents knew I was gay; I’d had to tell them.
BOY GEORGE

Age Gay Parent Sixteen
One door closes and another one opens.
BOY GEORGE

Another Close Doors Opens
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

Annoyed Party People Real Thinking

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