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I’d got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.

Boy George

So much happened in that 10-year span. There were so many musical revolutions. Some were happening at the same time.
BOY GEORGE

Behind Happening Punk Revolution Some
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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Age Gay Parent Sixteen
For me with “The Apprentice,” it kind of blew out my business brain. I don’t really think of myself as a business person.
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Creative Nice Thinking
I’m not responsible enough to have a dog – or a child.
BOY GEORGE

Children Dog Enough
What happened during the previews of ‘Taboo’ [musical] was that it was the first time I’d ever been written about as a great song-writer.
BOY GEORGE

Drug Musical Song Writer
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.
BOY GEORGE

Country People Punk Revolutionary Sanitation Strike
As a kid, I would’ve loved to get a tweet from David Bowie or Joan Rivers or Tom Cruise. It’s great that you can communicate with people and it’s instant.
BOY GEORGE

Instant Kids People Rivers
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.
BOY GEORGE

Competition Realizing Thinking
I think we grow into ourselves. And unfortunately we do it in the spotlight, so when we make mistakes, everybody knows about it.
BOY GEORGE

Mistake Spotlight Thinking
[Arnold Schwarzenegger] is really good at [‘The New Celebrity Apprentice’ show]. Totally different energy to our potential president, but he’s cool.
BOY GEORGE

Cool Different Energy President
I think these days, as an artist, you have to be slightly entrepreneurial. …Nobody really sells records anymore.
BOY GEORGE

Artist Nobody Records Thinking
I just remember the audience looking really horrified because Rosie [O’Donnell] was trying to sell the show as sort of Pippin and Annie. She was saying it’s a family show.
BOY GEORGE

Family Horrified Looking Remember Show
I knew style and content went hand in hand.
BOY GEORGE

Content Hands Style
Gay unions, what is that about? I haven’t been invited to any ceremonies, and I wouldn’t go anyway.
BOY GEORGE

Divorce Gay Invited Thinking
The ultimate goal is to be more satisfied. I really don’t believe you get wiser because you get older. It’s a choice, perhaps not to take some things so seriously
BOY GEORGE

Believe Choices Goal Satisfied
The most political thing you can do is be yourself
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Being Political Yourself

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