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.
BOY GEORGEI’m always tweeting about food and things that I’ve made.
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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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The Taboo crowd was certainly less precious. They were happy to end up in a pile of vomit and booze at the end of the night. It was antifashion, in a sense. They were just as obsessive as the New -Romantics but they acted like they didn’t care.
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I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.
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I suppose I was seen more as an elder statesman because I had been around the London club scene for so many years. To the Taboo crowd I was really seen as a pop star, someone famous.
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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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When Culture Club broke up, I hadn’t been going out a lot because we’d been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London.
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Someone once said a cynic is just a disappointed romantic. That really, really sums me up.
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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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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 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’m not responsible enough to have a dog – or a child.
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You had disco going on behind punk. You had Michael Jackson. You had the Sex Pistols.
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I think being individual in the show business is what gives you life and longevity.
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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 most political thing you can do is be yourself
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