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My God is better than your God

Boy George

I just remember the audience looking really horrified because Rosie [O’Donnell] was trying to sell the show as sort of Pippin and Annie. She was saying it’s a family show.
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Family Horrified Looking Remember Show
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.
BOY GEORGE

Boys People Records Response Work
You have to eat at a certain time and eat properly.
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Certain Eat Properly
I’m a big Bob Dylan fan, a huge David Bowie fan… none of those people have orthodox, cabaret voices. These are people where what they’re singing about is just as important as how they’re singing it.
BOY GEORGE

Huge Important Orthodox People Singing
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.
BOY GEORGE

Asses Clubs Different Romantic Way
Most of my influences are from the past.
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Influence Most Past People
As 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.
BOY GEORGE

Developments Gay Issue Man Scary Thing
I am thinking of George Michael’s family, friends and fans. He was so loved and I hope he knew it because the sadness today is beyond words. Devastating.
BOY GEORGE

Beautiful Believe Devasting Sadness
I was unwelcome in the U.S. for four years.
BOY GEORGE

Four Unwelcome Years
I’m not someone who can sing anything… And my favorite singers aren’t people whose voice you would say is amazing.
BOY GEORGE

Amazing Anything People Singing Voice
Certainly for me, when punk exploded in the 1970s, it was just great. We had these wonderful clothes to wear.
BOY GEORGE

Clothes Hair Kids Wonderful
You get older and you suddenly realize the only person you’re in competition with is yourself.
BOY GEORGE

Competition Get Older Yourself
I knew style and content went hand in hand.
BOY GEORGE

Content Hands Style
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.
BOY GEORGE

Ideas Like Punk Something
I like the big bombastic singers, but I’m also very drawn to what I call character singers.
BOY GEORGE

Character People Special
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.
BOY GEORGE

Being Embarrassing People Really Sad

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