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.
BOY GEORGEI 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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My family knew I was gay when I was 15, long before I got famous. But it’s a very different thing coming out to your family and coming out to the universe. That’s a big step.
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I think people could be a bit friendlier. The only real contact you have with people is when they’re annoyed if you’ve had a party – you know, it’s been a bit too noisy for them or something.
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You have to watch what you eat.
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Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
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Part of me looks at the gay movement now and worries that we’re losing our individuality.
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Most of my influences are from the past.
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My God is better than your God
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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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I was unwelcome in the U.S. for four years.
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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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You have to eat at a certain time and eat properly.
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I am what I am. There’s nothing I can do about it.
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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 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.
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