The Taboo crowd was certainly less precious. They were happy to end up in a pile of vomit and booze at the end of the night. It was antifashion, in a sense. They were just as obsessive as the New -Romantics but they acted like they didn’t care.
BOY GEORGEAs a gay man I feel very strongly about those issues around the world – there’ve been huge changes and developments, but there are still places where things are scary.
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A lot of what I’ve been learning in the last two years is due to therapy – about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven’t worked. It isn’t anything to do with anybody else; it’s to do with me.
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The idea that gay people have to mimic what obviously doesn’t work for straight people any more… I think is a bit tragic. I am looking forward to gay divorces.
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I’m always being inspired .
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On Madonna: She’s a gay man trapped in a woman’s body.
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I’m not responsible enough to have a dog – or a child.
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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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You had disco going on behind punk. You had Michael Jackson. You had the Sex Pistols.
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I’d got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.
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I suppose I was seen more as an elder statesman because I had been around the London club scene for so many years. To the Taboo crowd I was really seen as a pop star, someone famous.
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Except for Courtney Love-who reminded me of that mad snake in The Jungle Book.
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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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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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You get the odd person [in social media] that will write something nasty and the trick is not to engage with them on any level.
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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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Taboo was kind of celebrating trash, the kind of records you secretly loved, like Yes Sir, I Can Boogie, by Baccara [laughs] – things that you probably shouldn’t like.
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