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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.

Boy George

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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Doors Hunger Strike Suicide
Everything I think in life is about context and intention.
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Intention Life Thinking
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.
BOY GEORGE

Kind Laughing Records
[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
I think people could be a bit friendlier. The only real contact you have with people is when they’re annoyed if you’ve had a party – you know, it’s been a bit too noisy for them or something.
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Annoyed Party People Real Thinking
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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Behind Happening Punk Revolution Some
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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Levels Media Writing
His designs were often breath-taking, but it was the way he used his body that was so utterly new and refreshing.
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Breath Designing Refreshing Talking
You can partake of the buffet a little bit more than you should, so you have to have a routine.
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Bit Little More Routine
Madonna is a “living, breathing cash register.”
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Breathing Cash Register
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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Amazing Anything People Singing Voice
On Madonna: She’s a gay man trapped in a woman’s body.
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Body Culture Gay Men Woman
If I ever commented on one of his outfits he would snip, “Oh, thank you, Mr. Boy George. I do value your opinion.” And then he would spin and make some ridiculous noise and mince off.
BOY GEORGE

Commented Mind Opinion Ridiculous Snip
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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Group Kids Media People Popular
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
I like the big bombastic singers, but I’m also very drawn to what I call character singers.
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Character People Special
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.
BOY GEORGE

Country People Punk Revolutionary Sanitation Strike
Part of me looks at the gay movement now and worries that we’re losing our individuality.
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Gay Individuality Worry
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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Big Everything Maybe People Without
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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Creative Nice Thinking
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.
BOY GEORGE

Boys People Records Response Work
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
Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
BOY GEORGE

Long Distance Relationship Radiance Separation
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
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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Florida Holiday Thinking
A lot of what I’ve been learning in the last two years is due to therapy – about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven’t worked. It isn’t anything to do with anybody else; it’s to do with me.
BOY GEORGE

Lasts Relationships Therapy Two Years
I was unwelcome in the U.S. for four years.
BOY GEORGE

Four Unwelcome Years

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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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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