What 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 GEORGEThe most significant New York club for me was Paradise Garage, where they played house music. This was around ’84 or ’85.
More Boy George Quotes
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One door closes and another one opens.
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I was unwelcome in the U.S. for four years.
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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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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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I’d got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.
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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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The band never actually split up – we just stopped speaking to each other and went our own separate ways.
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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 world is less homophobic, depending on where you are in the world…
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I think these days, as an artist, you have to be slightly entrepreneurial. …Nobody really sells records anymore.
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I think for me one of the big things was realizing that being Boy George is my job. It’s what I do.
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I knew style and content went hand in hand.
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I don’t get all this Speedo stuff actually, I mean, whatever happened to the feather boa?
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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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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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