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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.

Boy George

I am what I am. There’s nothing I can do about it.
BOY GEORGE

About Myself Nothing
I don’t know whether when I was 20 years old or 25 years old if somebody would have come along with incredible wisdom whether I would have really listened.
BOY GEORGE

Incredibles Old Somebody Years
A lot of people felt I was getting work because I was Boy George. My response at the time was that there’s a lot of DJs making records, they’re not all making good records, but they have the right to do that.
BOY GEORGE

Boys People Records Response Work
Someone once said a cynic is just a disappointed romantic. That really, really sums me up.
BOY GEORGE

Cynic Disappointed Romantic Sums
Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
BOY GEORGE

Long Distance Relationship Radiance Separation
I think we grow into ourselves. And unfortunately we do it in the spotlight, so when we make mistakes, everybody knows about it.
BOY GEORGE

Mistake Spotlight Thinking
A lot of what I’ve been learning in the last two years is due to therapy – about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven’t worked. It isn’t anything to do with anybody else; it’s to do with me.
BOY GEORGE

Lasts Relationships Therapy Two Years
I’m always being inspired .
BOY GEORGE

Always Being Inspired
His designs were often breath-taking, but it was the way he used his body that was so utterly new and refreshing.
BOY GEORGE

Breath Designing Refreshing Talking
I was about 16 when punk started to happen… It felt like you had this naive idea that you could change things just by wearing something.
BOY GEORGE

Ideas Like Punk Something
The band never actually split up – we just stopped speaking to each other and went our own separate ways.
BOY GEORGE

Band Separate Speaking Splits Way
You get older and you suddenly realize the only person you’re in competition with is yourself.
BOY GEORGE

Competition Get Older Yourself
The 1970s was probably the most exciting decade to be a teenager, from discovering Little Richard at the end of the 1960s to glam rock to punk rock to electro music.
BOY GEORGE

Discovering Rocks Sex Teenager
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.
BOY GEORGE

Age Gay Parent Sixteen
My mother and father were fantastic, very active. I find it difficult to say this, but I’m quite a loving person and I’ve always been loving to my friends. In the long run, that pays off. I’m very interested in other people, and if you are, they’re interested in you.
BOY GEORGE

Father Mother Running
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.
BOY GEORGE

Country People Punk Revolutionary Sanitation Strike

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