You had disco going on behind punk. You had Michael Jackson. You had the Sex Pistols.
BOY GEORGEPart of me looks at the gay movement now and worries that we’re losing our individuality.
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When you’re younger, you think you’re in competition with everyone. You think everyone’s success is a threat to you, and this is a thing you grow out of.
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Madonna is a “living, breathing cash register.”
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I am what I am. There’s nothing I can do about it.
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The best thing you can do is work on your personality because we’re all gonna get ugly.
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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.
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What happened during the previews of ‘Taboo’ [musical] was that it was the first time I’d ever been written about as a great song-writer.
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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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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.
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You find out so many interesting things when you’re not on drugs.
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I’m always being inspired .
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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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I don’t get all this Speedo stuff actually, I mean, whatever happened to the feather boa?
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You get older and you suddenly realize the only person you’re in competition with is yourself.
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On Madonna: She’s a gay man trapped in a woman’s body.
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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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