The fabulous side of Taboo was dressing up and dancing like no one was watching you. There were no rules.
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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Taboo was kind of celebrating trash, the kind of records you secretly loved, like Yes Sir, I Can Boogie, by Baccara [laughs] – things that you probably shouldn’t like.
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Certainly for me, when punk exploded in the 1970s, it was just great. We had these wonderful clothes to wear.
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Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
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Madonna is a “living, breathing cash register.”
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I’m not someone who can sing anything… And my favorite singers aren’t people whose voice you would say is amazing.
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I don’t know whether when I was 20 years old or 25 years old if somebody would have come along with incredible wisdom whether I would have really listened.
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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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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.
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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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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
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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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The 1970s was probably the most exciting decade to be a teenager, from discovering Little Richard at the end of the 1960s to glam rock to punk rock to electro music.
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I’d got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.
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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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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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