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 GEORGEThe ultimate goal is to be more satisfied. I really don’t believe you get wiser because you get older. It’s a choice, perhaps not to take some things so seriously
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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.
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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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I think these days, as an artist, you have to be slightly entrepreneurial. …Nobody really sells records anymore.
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In writing the autobiography, I can really chuckle when I look at the songs. I was acting out the part. I saw myself as a victim.
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I’m always tweeting about food and things that I’ve made.
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For me, touring is about looking after myself.
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I think of myself more as a creative-type person, but it’s quite nice to be challenged physically and mentally.
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Personality is a real aphrodisiac, when somebody is charming or funny. I think certain jobs attract certain types of people.
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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’d got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.
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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 just go in my back garden. It’s the only place where people don’t come and bother you.
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I am what I am. There’s nothing I can do about it.
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The 1970s was probably the most exciting decade to be a teenager, from discovering Little Richard at the end of the 1960s to glam rock to punk rock to electro music.
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You can partake of the buffet a little bit more than you should, so you have to have a routine.
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