And it’s taken me the best part of 54 years to reach that point where I’m like, “I’m very lucky, I’m lucky, I’m blessed” – all of those things. I wish I could impart that to other people but I think when you’re young, you just don’t listen.
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.
More Boy George Quotes
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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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Everything I think in life is about context and intention.
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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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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.
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I just go in my back garden. It’s the only place where people don’t come and bother you.
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The 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
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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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What’s really sad is that a lot of very talented people are being forced to do things that are very embarrassing and I don’t intend to be one of them.
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The 1970s was probably the most exciting decade to be a teenager, from discovering Little Richard at the end of the 1960s to glam rock to punk rock to electro music.
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You had disco going on behind punk. You had Michael Jackson. You had the Sex Pistols.
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You have to eat at a certain time and eat properly.
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She’s probably in denial that she’s a great big ball of insecurity and I’m quite well aware that I am one.
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The most significant New York club for me was Paradise Garage, where they played house music. This was around ’84 or ’85.
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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.
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I 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.
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