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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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Around Country Famous More Pop Someone Taboo
Everything I think in life is about context and intention.
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Intention Life Thinking
I just go in my back garden. It’s the only place where people don’t come and bother you.
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Bother Garden People
A lot of people come up to me all the time and say thank you for helping me be who I am. So my thing wasn’t just about sexuality. It was about anyone who felt different; anyone who felt out of place. Being gay was one part of it.
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Gay Helping People Sexual Thank
Most of my influences are from the past.
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Influence Most Past People
I was unwelcome in the U.S. for four years.
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Four Unwelcome Years
The New Romantic scene was so tiny. Although it got lots of mileage in the media, it was a really small club with only a core group of people. As it got more popular, kids started to come from the suburbs all dressed up, but it -really wasn’t as big as it looked.
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Group Kids Media People Popular
I think these days, as an artist, you have to be slightly entrepreneurial. …Nobody really sells records anymore.
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Artist Nobody Records Thinking
One door closes and another one opens.
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Another Close Doors Opens
I think of myself more as a creative-type person, but it’s quite nice to be challenged physically and mentally.
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Challenge Mentally Physical Think
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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Kind Laughing Records
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.
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Incredibles Old Somebody Years
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.
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Big Everything Maybe People Without
I was about 16 when punk started to happen… It felt like you had this naive idea that you could change things just by wearing something.
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Ideas Like Punk Something
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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Country Culture Going Out Life Social
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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Huge Important Orthodox People Singing

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