My God is better than your God
BOY GEORGEI’d got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.
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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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Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
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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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[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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Most of my influences are from the past.
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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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The most political thing you can do is be yourself
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The band never actually split up – we just stopped speaking to each other and went our own separate ways.
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Leigh [Bowery] would create fake guest lists and put the most ridiculous names on them – Joan Collins, or really naff soap stars who would never grace the door of Taboo.
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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.
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When Culture Club broke up, I hadn’t been going out a lot because we’d been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London.
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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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So much happened in that 10-year span. There were so many musical revolutions. Some were happening at the same time.
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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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Everything I think in life is about context and intention.
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The best thing you can do is work on your personality because we’re all gonna get ugly.
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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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Madonna is a “living, breathing cash register.”
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The New Romantic scene was so tiny. Although it got lots of mileage in the media, it was a really small club with only a core group of people. As it got more popular, kids started to come from the suburbs all dressed up, but it -really wasn’t as big as it looked.
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For me, I’ve gotten better at that since I’ve gotten older. I never was good at that when I was younger.
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One door closes and another one opens.
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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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Maybe 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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You can partake of the buffet a little bit more than you should, so you have to have a routine.
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I think of myself more as a creative-type person, but it’s quite nice to be challenged physically and mentally.
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I think being individual in the show business is what gives you life and longevity.
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