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.
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.
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Everyone loved the music but nobody liked the name. I -remember getting a postcard from Jon from L.A. saying, “I don’t think America’s ready for the Sex Gang Children.”
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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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Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
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[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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You had disco going on behind punk. You had Michael Jackson. You had the Sex Pistols.
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The most political thing you can do is be yourself
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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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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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My 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.
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Voting for New Labour is like helping an old lady across the road while screaming ‘Get a move on!’ Even the Tories, who you could once rely on to be completely heartless are pretending to care.
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Certainly for me, when punk exploded in the 1970s, it was just great. We had these wonderful clothes to wear.
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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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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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One door closes and another one opens.
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I like the big bombastic singers, but I’m also very drawn to what I call character singers.
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