I just go in my back garden. It’s the only place where people don’t come and bother you.
BOY GEORGEI 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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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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In writing the autobiography, I can really chuckle when I look at the songs. I was acting out the part. I saw myself as a victim.
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Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
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I try to exist in a world where there is freedom of opinion, where you’re allowed to make jokes. I don’t want to live in some PC world where no-one’s allowed to say anything.
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You get older and you suddenly realize the only person you’re in competition with is yourself.
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The problem with being on the road – especially in a hot place like Florida – is that you can begin to think you’re on holiday.
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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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What’s really sad is that a lot of very talented people are being forced to do things that are very embarrassing and I don’t intend to be one of them.
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I was about 16 when punk started to happen… It felt like you had this naive idea that you could change things just by wearing something.
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Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance.
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On Madonna: She’s a gay man trapped in a woman’s body.
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One door closes and another one opens.
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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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Madonna is a “living, breathing cash register.”
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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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