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When you’re younger, you think you’re in competition with everyone. You think everyone’s success is a threat to you, and this is a thing you grow out of.

Boy George

You had disco going on behind punk. You had Michael Jackson. You had the Sex Pistols.
BOY GEORGE

Behind Disco Person Punk Sex
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
My God is better than your God
BOY GEORGE

Better God Religious Wars
The problem with being on the road – especially in a hot place like Florida – is that you can begin to think you’re on holiday.
BOY GEORGE

Florida Holiday Thinking
I have the best job in the world. There’s not really a lot to moan or whine about. I’ve got the privilege of going out and doing something I absolutely love.
BOY GEORGE

Absolutely Best Jobs Really Something
I knew style and content went hand in hand.
BOY GEORGE

Content Hands Style
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
The best thing you can do is work on your personality because we’re all gonna get ugly.
BOY GEORGE

Best Personality Things Ugly
The band never actually split up – we just stopped speaking to each other and went our own separate ways.
BOY GEORGE

Band Separate Speaking Splits Way
Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
BOY GEORGE

Long Distance Relationship Radiance Separation
I just remember the audience looking really horrified because Rosie [O’Donnell] was trying to sell the show as sort of Pippin and Annie. She was saying it’s a family show.
BOY GEORGE

Family Horrified Looking Remember Show
I 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.
BOY GEORGE

Annoyed Party People Real Thinking
A lot of people felt I was getting work because I was Boy George. My response at the time was that there’s a lot of DJs making records, they’re not all making good records, but they have the right to do that.
BOY GEORGE

Boys People Records Response Work
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
I think of myself more as a creative-type person, but it’s quite nice to be challenged physically and mentally.
BOY GEORGE

Challenge Mentally Physical Think
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 GEORGE

Blessed Impart Listen Point Reach

When you’re younger, you think you’re in competition with everyone. You think everyone’s success is a threat to you, and this is a thing you grow out of.

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When you’re younger, you think you’re in competition with everyone. You think everyone’s success is a threat to you, and this is a thing you grow out of.

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