Someone once said a cynic is just a disappointed romantic. That really, really sums me up.
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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I think these days, as an artist, you have to be slightly entrepreneurial. …Nobody really sells records anymore.
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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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Everyone loved the music but nobody liked the name. I -remember getting a postcard from Jon from L.A. saying, “I don’t think America’s ready for the Sex Gang Children.”
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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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Whenever there’s an interview with me, I might read it, but I don’t read the comments because they’re so hateful sometimes.
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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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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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I don’t get all this Speedo stuff actually, I mean, whatever happened to the feather boa?
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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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I exercise. I go to the gym every day. It’s about respecting what you’re doing. You’re going on stage. You have to sleep. You have to be prepared.
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I am what I am. There’s nothing I can do about it.
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You get older and you suddenly realize the only person you’re in competition with is yourself.
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I think for me one of the big things was realizing that being Boy George is my job. It’s what I do.
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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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I was about 16 when punk started to happen. It was so exciting. You had a social depression going on in the U.K. There was a sanitation strike. London was really grim, gray. You had Margaret Thatcher coming in. It was a really revolutionary time.
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