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What happened during the previews of ‘Taboo’ [musical] was that it was the first time I’d ever been written about as a great song-writer.

Boy George

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

Competition Get Older Yourself
What happened during the previews of ‘Taboo’ [musical] was that it was the first time I’d ever been written about as a great song-writer.
BOY GEORGE

Drug Musical Song Writer
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.
BOY GEORGE

Competition Realizing Thinking
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.
BOY GEORGE

Country People Punk Revolutionary Sanitation Strike
It’s quite nice that we can have almost direct contact with anyone in the world at any time. I don’t know how important it is in terms of one’s career. It seems to be pretty much superfluous in terms of that, but it’s nice to communicate.
BOY GEORGE

Almost Contact Important Superficial Term
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
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
I think for me one of the big things was realizing that being Boy George is my job. It’s what I do.
BOY GEORGE

Boys Jobs Thinking
Personality is a real aphrodisiac, when somebody is charming or funny. I think certain jobs attract certain types of people.
BOY GEORGE

People Real Thinking
You’re lucky if you reach the point where you go, “OK, I have a wonderful life …I fly around the world, stay in beautiful places, people are generally quite sweet to me, what’s to complain about?” But I think you have to get there…
BOY GEORGE

Beautiful Blessed Generally People Sweet
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
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.
BOY GEORGE

Discovering Rocks Sex Teenager
A lot of people come up to me all the time and say thank you for helping me be who I am. So my thing wasn’t just about sexuality. It was about anyone who felt different; anyone who felt out of place. Being gay was one part of it.
BOY GEORGE

Gay Helping People Sexual Thank
Everything I think in life is about context and intention.
BOY GEORGE

Intention Life Thinking
I’m always being inspired .
BOY GEORGE

Always Being Inspired
One door closes and another one opens.
BOY GEORGE

Another Close Doors Opens

What happened during the previews of ‘Taboo’ [musical] was that it was the first time I’d ever been written about as a great song-writer.

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