It’s quite nice that we can have almost direct contact with anyone in the world at any time. I don’t know how important it is in terms of one’s career. It seems to be pretty much superfluous in terms of that, but it’s nice to communicate.
BOY GEORGEWhen 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.
More Boy George Quotes
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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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My God is better than your God
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The fabulous side of Taboo was dressing up and dancing like no one was watching you. There were no rules.
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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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Madonna is a “living, breathing cash register.”
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You had disco going on behind punk. You had Michael Jackson. You had the Sex Pistols.
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One door closes and another one opens.
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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 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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After half an hour the drug hit me like a sensuous tidal wave. I turned into a tactile temptress and wanted to stroke the whole world. It gave me untold confidence.
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I’d got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.
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The ultimate goal is to be more satisfied. I really don’t believe you get wiser because you get older. It’s a choice, perhaps not to take some things so seriously
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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 think of myself more as a creative-type person, but it’s quite nice to be challenged physically and mentally.
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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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