I find that most people [in social media] just want me to say “happy birthday” to their mom or wish them good luck with their exams.
BOY GEORGEI like the big bombastic singers, but I’m also very drawn to what I call character singers.
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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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Gay unions, what is that about? I haven’t been invited to any ceremonies, and I wouldn’t go anyway.
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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 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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My family knew I was gay when I was 15, long before I got famous. But it’s a very different thing coming out to your family and coming out to the universe. That’s a big step.
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One door closes and another one opens.
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The world is less homophobic, depending on where you are in the world…
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[Arnold Schwarzenegger] is really good at [‘The New Celebrity Apprentice’ show]. Totally different energy to our potential president, but he’s cool.
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I try to exist in a world where there is freedom of opinion, where you’re allowed to make jokes. I don’t want to live in some PC world where no-one’s allowed to say anything.
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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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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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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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You have to watch what you eat.
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For me, touring is about looking after myself.
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