Taboo was kind of celebrating trash, the kind of records you secretly loved, like Yes Sir, I Can Boogie, by Baccara [laughs] – things that you probably shouldn’t like.
BOY GEORGEThe best thing you can do is work on your personality because we’re all gonna get ugly.
More Boy George Quotes
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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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Most of my influences are from the past.
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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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Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
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Personality is a real aphrodisiac, when somebody is charming or funny. I think certain jobs attract certain types of people.
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You find out so many interesting things when you’re not on drugs.
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In writing the autobiography, I can really chuckle when I look at the songs. I was acting out the part. I saw myself as a victim.
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She’s probably in denial that she’s a great big ball of insecurity and I’m quite well aware that I am one.
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One door closes and another one opens.
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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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Someone once said a cynic is just a disappointed romantic. That really, really sums me up.
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The world is less homophobic, depending on where you are in the world…
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Voting for New Labour is like helping an old lady across the road while screaming ‘Get a move on!’ Even the Tories, who you could once rely on to be completely heartless are pretending to care.
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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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Certainly for me, when punk exploded in the 1970s, it was just great. We had these wonderful clothes to wear.
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