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.
BOY GEORGECertainly for me, when punk exploded in the 1970s, it was just great. We had these wonderful clothes to wear.
More Boy George Quotes
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Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
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I knew style and content went hand in hand.
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I exercise. I go to the gym every day. It’s about respecting what you’re doing. You’re going on stage. You have to sleep. You have to be prepared.
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Remember that I was out of the closet at the age of sixteen. My parents knew I was gay; I’d had to tell them.
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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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I find that most people [in social media] just want me to say “happy birthday” to their mom or wish them good luck with their exams.
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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 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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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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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.
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The best thing you can do is work on your personality because we’re all gonna get ugly.
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Madonna is a “living, breathing cash register.”
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I think we grow into ourselves. And unfortunately we do it in the spotlight, so when we make mistakes, everybody knows about it.
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I suppose all of those New Romantic clubs were quite up their own asses in a way. Well, Taboo was up its own ass in a different way, but not in terms of rules.
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I’m not responsible enough to have a dog – or a child.
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