The best thing you can do is work on your personality because we’re all gonna get ugly.
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.
More Boy George Quotes
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I think these days, as an artist, you have to be slightly entrepreneurial. …Nobody really sells records anymore.
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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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Someone once said a cynic is just a disappointed romantic. That really, really sums me up.
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The fabulous side of Taboo was dressing up and dancing like no one was watching you. There were no rules.
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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 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’d got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.
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His designs were often breath-taking, but it was the way he used his body that was so utterly new and refreshing.
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Most of my influences are from the past.
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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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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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I think of myself more as a creative-type person, but it’s quite nice to be challenged physically and mentally.
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I cried. I absolutely wept, because it wasn’t the usual stuff like, “Oh, he was a drug addict and he did this and that…” It was really looking at the music and it was really complimentary. It was a huge thing.
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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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The idea that gay people have to mimic what obviously doesn’t work for straight people any more… I think is a bit tragic. I am looking forward to gay divorces.
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