You find out so many interesting things when you’re not on drugs.
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.
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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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When you’re younger, you think you’re in competition with everyone. You think everyone’s success is a threat to you, and this is a thing you grow out of.
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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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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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A lot of people come up to me all the time and say thank you for helping me be who I am. So my thing wasn’t just about sexuality. It was about anyone who felt different; anyone who felt out of place. Being gay was one part of it.
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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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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 was unwelcome in the U.S. for four years.
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You have to watch what you eat.
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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.
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One door closes and another one opens.
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I’d got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.
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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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I just go in my back garden. It’s the only place where people don’t come and bother you.
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My mother and father were fantastic, very active. I find it difficult to say this, but I’m quite a loving person and I’ve always been loving to my friends. In the long run, that pays off. I’m very interested in other people, and if you are, they’re interested in you.
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