I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.
BOY GEORGEThe 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.
More Boy George Quotes
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On Madonna: She’s a gay man trapped in a woman’s body.
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Part of me looks at the gay movement now and worries that we’re losing our individuality.
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Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
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When I first went to New York, I didn’t really go out to clubs. It was the height of Culture Club so I didn’t really have a social life. It was only after I had been to New York a few times that I started going out.
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For me, I’ve gotten better at that since I’ve gotten older. I never was good at that when I was younger.
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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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My God is better than your God
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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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The band never actually split up – we just stopped speaking to each other and went our own separate ways.
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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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The world is less homophobic, depending on where you are in the world…
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The most significant New York club for me was Paradise Garage, where they played house music. This was around ’84 or ’85.
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Someone once said a cynic is just a disappointed romantic. That really, really sums me up.
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I just go in my back garden. It’s the only place where people don’t come and bother you.
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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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