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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.

Boy George

I’d got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.
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Empty Felt Successful
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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Age Gay Parent Sixteen
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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Country People Punk Revolutionary Sanitation Strike
I don’t get all this Speedo stuff actually, I mean, whatever happened to the feather boa?
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Actually Mean Speedos Stuff
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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Big Everything Maybe People Without
Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
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Long Distance Relationship Radiance Separation
I’m not someone who can sing anything… And my favorite singers aren’t people whose voice you would say is amazing.
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Amazing Anything People Singing Voice
You have to watch what you eat.
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Eat Good Health Property Watches
I like the big bombastic singers, but I’m also very drawn to what I call character singers.
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Character People Special
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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Blessed Impart Listen Point Reach
Most of my influences are from the past.
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Influence Most Past People
Leigh [Bowery] would create fake guest lists and put the most ridiculous names on them – Joan Collins, or really naff soap stars who would never grace the door of Taboo.
BOY GEORGE

Doors Names Stars
On Madonna: She’s a gay man trapped in a woman’s body.
BOY GEORGE

Body Culture Gay Men Woman
Whenever there’s an interview with me, I might read it, but I don’t read the comments because they’re so hateful sometimes.
BOY GEORGE

People Sometimes Thinking Writing
I just remember the audience looking really horrified because Rosie [O’Donnell] was trying to sell the show as sort of Pippin and Annie. She was saying it’s a family show.
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Family Horrified Looking Remember Show
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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Annoyed Party People Real Thinking

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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