I don’t get all this Speedo stuff actually, I mean, whatever happened to the feather boa?
BOY GEORGEGay unions, what is that about? I haven’t been invited to any ceremonies, and I wouldn’t go anyway.
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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.
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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.
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I am what I am. There’s nothing I can do about it.
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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.
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On Madonna: She’s a gay man trapped in a woman’s body.
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I suppose all of those New Romantic clubs were quite up their own asses in a way. Well, Taboo was up its own ass in a different way, but not in terms of rules.
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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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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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Part of me looks at the gay movement now and worries that we’re losing our individuality.
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I’d got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.
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So much happened in that 10-year span. There were so many musical revolutions. Some were happening at the same time.
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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.
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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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What’s really sad is that a lot of very talented people are being forced to do things that are very embarrassing and I don’t intend to be one of them.
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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.
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