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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.

Boy George

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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Beautiful Blessed Generally People Sweet
You had disco going on behind punk. You had Michael Jackson. You had the Sex Pistols.
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Behind Disco Person Punk Sex
One door closes and another one opens.
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Another Close Doors Opens
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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Completely Heartless Moving Voting
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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Big Different Famous Gay Long Step
[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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Cool Different Energy President
Personality is a real aphrodisiac, when somebody is charming or funny. I think certain jobs attract certain types of people.
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People Real Thinking
I find that most people [in social media] just want me to say “happy birthday” to their mom or wish them good luck with their exams.
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Good Luck Media Mom
Someone once said a cynic is just a disappointed romantic. That really, really sums me up.
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Cynic Disappointed Romantic Sums
Certainly for me, when punk exploded in the 1970s, it was just great. We had these wonderful clothes to wear.
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Clothes Hair Kids Wonderful
I just go in my back garden. It’s the only place where people don’t come and bother you.
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Bother Garden People
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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Boys Jobs Thinking
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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Animation Care Crowds Night Obsession
I’d got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.
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Empty Felt Successful
When I first went to New York, I didn’t really go out to clubs. It was the height of Culture Club so I didn’t really have a social life. It was only after I had been to New York a few times that I started going out.
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Country Culture Going Out Life Social
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.
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Country People Punk Revolutionary Sanitation Strike

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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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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