I like the big bombastic singers, but I’m also very drawn to what I call character singers.
BOY GEORGESomeone once said a cynic is just a disappointed romantic. That really, really sums me up.
More Boy George Quotes
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I’m a big Bob Dylan fan, a huge David Bowie fan… none of those people have orthodox, cabaret voices. These are people where what they’re singing about is just as important as how they’re singing it.
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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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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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It’s quite nice that we can have almost direct contact with anyone in the world at any time. I don’t know how important it is in terms of one’s career. It seems to be pretty much superfluous in terms of that, but it’s nice to communicate.
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You’re lucky if you reach the point where you go, “OK, I have a wonderful life …I fly around the world, stay in beautiful places, people are generally quite sweet to me, what’s to complain about?” But I think you have to get there…
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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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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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[Arnold Schwarzenegger] is really good at [‘The New Celebrity Apprentice’ show]. Totally different energy to our potential president, but he’s cool.
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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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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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You had disco going on behind punk. You had Michael Jackson. You had the Sex Pistols.
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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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I’m always being inspired .
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I am what I am. There’s nothing I can do about it.
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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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