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.
BOY GEORGEMy 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.
BOY GEORGEThe 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
BOY GEORGEI’d got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.
BOY GEORGEI’m always tweeting about food and things that I’ve made.
BOY GEORGESomeone once said a cynic is just a disappointed romantic. That really, really sums me up.
BOY GEORGESeparation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
BOY GEORGEMy mother and father were fantastic, very active. I find it difficult to say this, but I’m quite a loving person and I’ve always been loving to my friends. In the long run, that pays off. I’m very interested in other people, and if you are, they’re interested in you.
BOY GEORGEI have the best job in the world. There’s not really a lot to moan or whine about. I’ve got the privilege of going out and doing something I absolutely love.
BOY GEORGEI 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.
BOY GEORGEThe most significant New York club for me was Paradise Garage, where they played house music. This was around ’84 or ’85.
BOY GEORGEI 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.
BOY GEORGEI would rather have a cup of tea than sex.
BOY GEORGEWhat happened during the previews of ‘Taboo’ [musical] was that it was the first time I’d ever been written about as a great song-writer.
BOY GEORGEI 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.
BOY GEORGEI think of myself more as a creative-type person, but it’s quite nice to be challenged physically and mentally.
BOY GEORGEWhen Culture Club broke up, I hadn’t been going out a lot because we’d been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London.
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