I cried. I absolutely wept, because it wasn’t the usual stuff like, “Oh, he was a drug addict and he did this and that…” It was really looking at the music and it was really complimentary. It was a huge thing.
BOY GEORGEI knew style and content went hand in hand.
More Boy George Quotes
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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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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.
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You have to watch what you eat.
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My God is better than your God
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Gay unions, what is that about? I haven’t been invited to any ceremonies, and I wouldn’t go anyway.
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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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On Madonna: She’s a gay man trapped in a woman’s body.
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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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The best thing you can do is work on your personality because we’re all gonna get ugly.
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Someone once said a cynic is just a disappointed romantic. That really, really sums me up.
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You get older and you suddenly realize the only person you’re in competition with is 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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I’m not someone who can sing anything… And my favorite singers aren’t people whose voice you would say is amazing.
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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 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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