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.
BOY GEORGEPart of me looks at the gay movement now and worries that we’re losing our individuality.
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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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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 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.
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You have to watch what you eat.
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I think people could be a bit friendlier. The only real contact you have with people is when they’re annoyed if you’ve had a party – you know, it’s been a bit too noisy for them or something.
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Someone once said a cynic is just a disappointed romantic. That really, really sums me up.
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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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I have the best job in the world. There’s not really a lot to moan or whine about. I’ve got the privilege of going out and doing something I absolutely love.
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I think for me one of the big things was realizing that being Boy George is my job. It’s what I do.
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You had disco going on behind punk. You had Michael Jackson. You had the Sex Pistols.
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You have to eat at a certain time and eat properly.
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My God is better than your God
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For me, touring is about looking after myself.
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And it’s taken me the best part of 54 years to reach that point where I’m like, “I’m very lucky, I’m lucky, I’m blessed” – all of those things. I wish I could impart that to other people but I think when you’re young, you just don’t listen.
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A lot of people come up to me all the time and say thank you for helping me be who I am. So my thing wasn’t just about sexuality. It was about anyone who felt different; anyone who felt out of place. Being gay was one part of it.
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