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.
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.
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Madonna is a “living, breathing cash register.”
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You find out so many interesting things when you’re not on drugs.
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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.
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I’m not someone who can sing anything… And my favorite singers aren’t people whose voice you would say is amazing.
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One door closes and another one opens.
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Gay unions, what is that about? I haven’t been invited to any ceremonies, and I wouldn’t go anyway.
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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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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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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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When I first went to New York, I didn’t really go out to clubs. It was the height of Culture Club so I didn’t really have a social life. It was only after I had been to New York a few times that I started going out.
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His designs were often breath-taking, but it was the way he used his body that was so utterly new and refreshing.
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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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You have to eat at a certain time and eat properly.
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I’m always being inspired .
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Certainly for me, when punk exploded in the 1970s, it was just great. We had these wonderful clothes to wear.
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