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.
BOY GEORGE[Arnold Schwarzenegger] is really good at [‘The New Celebrity Apprentice’ show]. Totally different energy to our potential president, but he’s cool.
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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Certainly for me, when punk exploded in the 1970s, it was just great. We had these wonderful clothes to wear.
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I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.
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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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One door closes and another one opens.
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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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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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What happened during the previews of ‘Taboo’ [musical] was that it was the first time I’d ever been written about as a great song-writer.
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The ultimate goal is to be more satisfied. I really don’t believe you get wiser because you get older. It’s a choice, perhaps not to take some things so seriously
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Leigh [Bowery] would make up stories about people committing suicide or going on hunger strikes because they were refused entry at the door.
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You have to watch what you eat.
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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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As a gay man I feel very strongly about those issues around the world – there’ve been huge changes and developments, but there are still places where things are scary.
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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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The fabulous side of Taboo was dressing up and dancing like no one was watching you. There were no rules.
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