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And 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.

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Personality is a real aphrodisiac, when somebody is charming or funny. I think certain jobs attract certain types of people.
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People Real Thinking
My God is better than your God
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Better God Religious Wars
When Culture Club broke up, I hadn’t been going out a lot because we’d been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London.
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House Kissed Leisure London
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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Annoyed Party People Real Thinking
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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Country People Punk Revolutionary Sanitation Strike
Voting for New Labour is like helping an old lady across the road while screaming ‘Get a move on!’ Even the Tories, who you could once rely on to be completely heartless are pretending to care.
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Completely Heartless Moving Voting
Most of my influences are from the past.
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Influence Most Past People
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
Remember that I was out of the closet at the age of sixteen. My parents knew I was gay; I’d had to tell them.
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Age Gay Parent Sixteen
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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Absolutely Compliment Drug Huge Thing
I think being individual in the show business is what gives you life and longevity.
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Giving Individual Thinking
The idea that gay people have to mimic what obviously doesn’t work for straight people any more… I think is a bit tragic. I am looking forward to gay divorces.
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Divorce Forward Mimic More People Straight
I was unwelcome in the U.S. for four years.
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Four Unwelcome Years
I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.
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Cups Sex Tea
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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Creative Nice Thinking
As a gay man I feel very strongly about those issues around the world – there’ve been huge changes and developments, but there are still places where things are scary.
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And 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.

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And 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.

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