For me, touring is about looking after myself.
BOY GEORGEIn writing the autobiography, I can really chuckle when I look at the songs. I was acting out the part. I saw myself as a victim.
More Boy George Quotes
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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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Everything I think in life is about context and intention.
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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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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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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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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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I was unwelcome in the U.S. for four years.
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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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On Madonna: She’s a gay man trapped in a woman’s body.
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Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
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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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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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Madonna is a “living, breathing cash register.”
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I’m a big Bob Dylan fan, a huge David Bowie fan… none of those people have orthodox, cabaret voices. These are people where what they’re singing about is just as important as how they’re singing it.
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Taboo was kind of celebrating trash, the kind of records you secretly loved, like Yes Sir, I Can Boogie, by Baccara [laughs] – things that you probably shouldn’t like.
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