You get the odd person [in social media] that will write something nasty and the trick is not to engage with them on any level.
BOY GEORGEFor 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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I don’t get all this Speedo stuff actually, I mean, whatever happened to the feather boa?
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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.
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I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.
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After half an hour the drug hit me like a sensuous tidal wave. I turned into a tactile temptress and wanted to stroke the whole world. It gave me untold confidence.
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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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I think being individual in the show business is what gives you life and longevity.
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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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The problem with being on the road – especially in a hot place like Florida – is that you can begin to think you’re on holiday.
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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.
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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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I’m a big Bob Dylan fan, a huge David Bowie fan… none of those people have orthodox, cabaret voices. These are people where what they’re singing about is just as important as how they’re singing it.
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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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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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The band never actually split up – we just stopped speaking to each other and went our own separate ways.
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