I find that most people [in social media] just want me to say “happy birthday” to their mom or wish them good luck with their exams.
BOY GEORGEAnd it’s taken me the best part of 54 years to reach that point where I’m like, “I’m very lucky, I’m lucky, I’m blessed” – all of those things. I wish I could impart that to other people but I think when you’re young, you just don’t listen.
More Boy George Quotes
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The most significant New York club for me was Paradise Garage, where they played house music. This was around ’84 or ’85.
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The band never actually split up – we just stopped speaking to each other and went our own separate ways.
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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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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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I just go in my back garden. It’s the only place where people don’t come and bother you.
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Madonna is a “living, breathing cash register.”
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I am thinking of George Michael’s family, friends and fans. He was so loved and I hope he knew it because the sadness today is beyond words. Devastating.
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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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What happened during the previews of ‘Taboo’ [musical] was that it was the first time I’d ever been written about as a great song-writer.
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I like the big bombastic singers, but I’m also very drawn to what I call character singers.
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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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I think these days, as an artist, you have to be slightly entrepreneurial. …Nobody really sells records anymore.
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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 get the odd person [in social media] that will write something nasty and the trick is not to engage with them on any level.
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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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