Everyone loved the music but nobody liked the name. I -remember getting a postcard from Jon from L.A. saying, “I don’t think America’s ready for the Sex Gang Children.”
BOY GEORGEThe world is less homophobic, depending on where you are in the world…
More Boy George Quotes
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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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The most political thing you can do is be yourself
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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.
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I was unwelcome in the U.S. for four years.
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Whenever there’s an interview with me, I might read it, but I don’t read the comments because they’re so hateful sometimes.
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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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One door closes and another one opens.
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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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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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I am what I am. There’s nothing I can do about it.
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You’re lucky if you reach the point where you go, “OK, I have a wonderful life …I fly around the world, stay in beautiful places, people are generally quite sweet to me, what’s to complain about?” But I think you have to get there…
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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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Gay unions, what is that about? I haven’t been invited to any ceremonies, and I wouldn’t go anyway.
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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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My God is better than your God
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