I just remember the audience looking really horrified because Rosie [O’Donnell] was trying to sell the show as sort of Pippin and Annie. She was saying it’s a family show.
BOY GEORGEWhenever there’s an interview with me, I might read it, but I don’t read the comments because they’re so hateful sometimes.
More Boy George Quotes
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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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As a kid, I would’ve loved to get a tweet from David Bowie or Joan Rivers or Tom Cruise. It’s great that you can communicate with people and it’s instant.
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I’m always tweeting about food and things that I’ve made.
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Madonna is a “living, breathing cash register.”
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I knew style and content went hand in hand.
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You can partake of the buffet a little bit more than you should, so you have to have a routine.
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Leigh [Bowery] would make up stories about people committing suicide or going on hunger strikes because they were refused entry at the door.
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When I go onstage, I’m going to work …I feel like my performance is about an emotional connection. I want to connect with people, whether it’s like a romantic song or a happy song.
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My God is better than your God
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Except for Courtney Love-who reminded me of that mad snake in The Jungle Book.
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You had disco going on behind punk. You had Michael Jackson. You had the Sex Pistols.
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Everything I think in life is about context and intention.
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The problem with being on the road – especially in a hot place like Florida – is that you can begin to think you’re on holiday.
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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 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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