I think of myself more as a creative-type person, but it’s quite nice to be challenged physically and mentally.
BOY GEORGEWhen I go onstage, I’m going to work …I feel like my performance is about an emotional connection. I want to connect with people, whether it’s like a romantic song or a happy song.
More Boy George Quotes
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On Madonna: She’s a gay man trapped in a woman’s body.
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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.
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For me with “The Apprentice,” it kind of blew out my business brain. I don’t really think of myself as a business person.
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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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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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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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The ultimate goal is to be more satisfied. I really don’t believe you get wiser because you get older. It’s a choice, perhaps not to take some things so seriously
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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.
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You have to watch what you eat.
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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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My mother and father were fantastic, very active. I find it difficult to say this, but I’m quite a loving person and I’ve always been loving to my friends. In the long run, that pays off. I’m very interested in other people, and if you are, they’re interested in you.
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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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I exercise. I go to the gym every day. It’s about respecting what you’re doing. You’re going on stage. You have to sleep. You have to be prepared.
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The most political thing you can do is be yourself
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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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