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 GEORGEThe band never actually split up – we just stopped speaking to each other and went our own separate ways.
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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If I ever commented on one of his outfits he would snip, “Oh, thank you, Mr. Boy George. I do value your opinion.” And then he would spin and make some ridiculous noise and mince off.
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You have to watch what you eat.
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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.”
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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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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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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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I just remember the audience looking really horrified because Rosie [O’Donnell] was trying to sell the show as sort of Pippin and Annie. She was saying it’s a family show.
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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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Someone once said a cynic is just a disappointed romantic. That really, really sums me up.
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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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So much happened in that 10-year span. There were so many musical revolutions. Some were happening at the same time.
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As a kid, I would’ve loved to get a tweet from David Bowie or Joan Rivers or Tom Cruise. It’s great that you can communicate with people and it’s instant.
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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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Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
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