She’s probably in denial that she’s a great big ball of insecurity and I’m quite well aware that I am one.
BOY GEORGEBeethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance.
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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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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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I don’t get all this Speedo stuff actually, I mean, whatever happened to the feather boa?
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For me with “The Apprentice,” it kind of blew out my business brain. I don’t really think of myself as a business person.
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Voting for New Labour is like helping an old lady across the road while screaming ‘Get a move on!’ Even the Tories, who you could once rely on to be completely heartless are pretending to care.
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You’re lucky if you reach the point where you go, “OK, I have a wonderful life …I fly around the world, stay in beautiful places, people are generally quite sweet to me, what’s to complain about?” But I think you have to get there…
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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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I suppose all of those New Romantic clubs were quite up their own asses in a way. Well, Taboo was up its own ass in a different way, but not in terms of rules.
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The New Romantic scene was so tiny. Although it got lots of mileage in the media, it was a really small club with only a core group of people. As it got more popular, kids started to come from the suburbs all dressed up, but it -really wasn’t as big as it looked.
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I’d got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.
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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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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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Whenever 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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So much happened in that 10-year span. There were so many musical revolutions. Some were happening at the same time.
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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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