I was unwelcome in the U.S. for four years.
BOY GEORGEWhen 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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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 world is less homophobic, depending on where you are in the world…
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One door closes and another one opens.
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I’m always being inspired .
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I’m always tweeting about food and things that I’ve made.
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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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The band never actually split up – we just stopped speaking to each other and went our own separate ways.
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The New Romantic scene was so tiny. Although it got lots of mileage in the media, it was a really small club with only a core group of people. As it got more popular, kids started to come from the suburbs all dressed up, but it -really wasn’t as big as it looked.
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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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As a kid, I would’ve loved to get a tweet from David Bowie or Joan Rivers or Tom Cruise. It’s great that you can communicate with people and it’s instant.
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Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance.
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You had disco going on behind punk. You had Michael Jackson. You had the Sex Pistols.
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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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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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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.
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