Madonna is a “living, breathing cash register.”
BOY GEORGEYou get the odd person [in social media] that will write something nasty and the trick is not to engage with them on any level.
More Boy George Quotes
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My God is better than your God
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I was unwelcome in the U.S. for four years.
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You have to eat at a certain time and eat properly.
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I think these days, as an artist, you have to be slightly entrepreneurial. …Nobody really sells records anymore.
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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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A lot of what I’ve been learning in the last two years is due to therapy – about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven’t worked. It isn’t anything to do with anybody else; it’s to do with me.
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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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The best thing you can do is work on your personality because we’re all gonna get ugly.
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I think being individual in the show business is what gives you life and longevity.
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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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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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Certainly for me, when punk exploded in the 1970s, it was just great. We had these wonderful clothes to wear.
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Personality is a real aphrodisiac, when somebody is charming or funny. I think certain jobs attract certain types of people.
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When 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.
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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.
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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.
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Leigh [Bowery] would make up stories about people committing suicide or going on hunger strikes because they were refused entry at the door.
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I just go in my back garden. It’s the only place where people don’t come and bother you.
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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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I don’t get all this Speedo stuff actually, I mean, whatever happened to the feather boa?
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I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.
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Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance.
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Taboo was kind of celebrating trash, the kind of records you secretly loved, like Yes Sir, I Can Boogie, by Baccara [laughs] – things that you probably shouldn’t like.
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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.
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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’d got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.
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