For me with “The Apprentice,” it kind of blew out my business brain. I don’t really think of myself as a business person.
BOY GEORGEThe fabulous side of Taboo was dressing up and dancing like no one was watching you. There were no rules.
More Boy George Quotes
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Everyone loved the music but nobody liked the name. I -remember getting a postcard from Jon from L.A. saying, “I don’t think America’s ready for the Sex Gang Children.”
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Personality is a real aphrodisiac, when somebody is charming or funny. I think certain jobs attract certain types of people.
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I am what I am. There’s nothing I can do about it.
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The most political thing you can do is be yourself
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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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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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You had disco going on behind punk. You had Michael Jackson. You had the Sex Pistols.
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Except for Courtney Love-who reminded me of that mad snake in The Jungle Book.
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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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Leigh [Bowery] would make up stories about people committing suicide or going on hunger strikes because they were refused entry at the door.
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You get the odd person [in social media] that will write something nasty and the trick is not to engage with them on any level.
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Madonna is a “living, breathing cash register.”
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Gay unions, what is that about? I haven’t been invited to any ceremonies, and I wouldn’t go anyway.
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A lot of people felt I was getting work because I was Boy George. My response at the time was that there’s a lot of DJs making records, they’re not all making good records, but they have the right to do that.
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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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