Someone once said a cynic is just a disappointed romantic. That really, really sums me up.
BOY GEORGEMaybe 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.
More Boy George Quotes
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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 was about 16 when punk started to happen… It felt like you had this naive idea that you could change things just by wearing something.
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You get the odd person [in social media] that will write something nasty and the trick is not to engage with them on any level.
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After half an hour the drug hit me like a sensuous tidal wave. I turned into a tactile temptress and wanted to stroke the whole world. It gave me untold confidence.
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I’m always tweeting about food and things that I’ve made.
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I’d got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.
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A lot of what I’ve been learning in the last two years is due to therapy – about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven’t worked. It isn’t anything to do with anybody else; it’s to do with me.
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I am thinking of George Michael’s family, friends and fans. He was so loved and I hope he knew it because the sadness today is beyond words. Devastating.
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I like the big bombastic singers, but I’m also very drawn to what I call character singers.
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What’s really sad is that a lot of very talented people are being forced to do things that are very embarrassing and I don’t intend to be one of them.
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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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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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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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Part of me looks at the gay movement now and worries that we’re losing our individuality.
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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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