The most significant New York club for me was Paradise Garage, where they played house music. This was around ’84 or ’85.
BOY GEORGEI’m a big Bob Dylan fan, a huge David Bowie fan… none of those people have orthodox, cabaret voices. These are people where what they’re singing about is just as important as how they’re singing it.
More Boy George Quotes
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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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I like the big bombastic singers, but I’m also very drawn to what I call character singers.
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You have to eat at a certain time and eat properly.
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I’m always tweeting about food and things that I’ve made.
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Leigh [Bowery] would create fake guest lists and put the most ridiculous names on them – Joan Collins, or really naff soap stars who would never grace the door of Taboo.
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I 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.
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For me the most interesting thing about Leigh Bowery was the way he used his body as a style statement. He was a big guy, but, because he was tall and had long legs, he looked in proportion – even sexy – despite being overweight by conventional standards.
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When I go onstage, I’m going to work …I feel like my performance is about an emotional connection. I want to connect with people, whether it’s like a romantic song or a happy song.
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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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Except for Courtney Love-who reminded me of that mad snake in The Jungle Book.
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When I first went to New York, I didn’t really go out to clubs. It was the height of Culture Club so I didn’t really have a social life. It was only after I had been to New York a few times that I started going out.
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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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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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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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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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