You had disco going on behind punk. You had Michael Jackson. You had the Sex Pistols.
BOY GEORGERemember that I was out of the closet at the age of sixteen. My parents knew I was gay; I’d had to tell them.
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For me, touring is about looking after myself.
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I’m always being inspired .
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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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I don’t get all this Speedo stuff actually, I mean, whatever happened to the feather boa?
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Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance.
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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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The 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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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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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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On Madonna: She’s a gay man trapped in a woman’s body.
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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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I think being individual in the show business is what gives you life and longevity.
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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.
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The band never actually split up – we just stopped speaking to each other and went our own separate ways.
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I was unwelcome in the U.S. for four years.
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