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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.

Boy George

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.
BOY GEORGE

Emotional People Romantic Song
I am what I am. There’s nothing I can do about it.
BOY GEORGE

About Myself Nothing
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.
BOY GEORGE

Big Different Famous Gay Long Step
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.
BOY GEORGE

Alowm Anything Say Trying World
I just go in my back garden. It’s the only place where people don’t come and bother you.
BOY GEORGE

Bother Garden People
A lot of people come up to me all the time and say thank you for helping me be who I am. So my thing wasn’t just about sexuality. It was about anyone who felt different; anyone who felt out of place. Being gay was one part of it.
BOY GEORGE

Gay Helping People Sexual Thank
I think for me one of the big things was realizing that being Boy George is my job. It’s what I do.
BOY GEORGE

Boys Jobs Thinking
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.
BOY GEORGE

Country Culture Going Out Life Social
After half an hour the drug hit me like a sensuous tidal wave. I turned into a tactile temptress and wanted to stroke the whole world. It gave me untold confidence.
BOY GEORGE

Drug Half Sensuous Stroke World
You have to watch what you eat.
BOY GEORGE

Eat Good Health Property Watches
I was about 16 when punk started to happen. It was so exciting. You had a social depression going on in the U.K. There was a sanitation strike. London was really grim, gray. You had Margaret Thatcher coming in. It was a really revolutionary time.
BOY GEORGE

Country People Punk Revolutionary Sanitation Strike
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.
BOY GEORGE

Commented Mind Opinion Ridiculous Snip
When Culture Club broke up, I hadn’t been going out a lot because we’d been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London.
BOY GEORGE

House Kissed Leisure London
The world is less homophobic, depending on where you are in the world…
BOY GEORGE

Depend Gay Homophobic Issues Men
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.
BOY GEORGE

Good Luck Media Mom
Part of me looks at the gay movement now and worries that we’re losing our individuality.
BOY GEORGE

Gay Individuality Worry

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