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I just go in my back garden. It’s the only place where people don’t come and bother you.

Boy George

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.
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Huge Important Orthodox People Singing
For me, I’ve gotten better at that since I’ve gotten older. I never was good at that when I was younger.
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Better Good Gotten Older Younger
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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Annoyed Party People Real Thinking
The best thing you can do is work on your personality because we’re all gonna get ugly.
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Best Personality Things Ugly
The world is less homophobic, depending on where you are in the world…
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Depend Gay Homophobic Issues Men
You get the odd person [in social media] that will write something nasty and the trick is not to engage with them on any level.
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Levels Media Writing
The most significant New York club for me was Paradise Garage, where they played house music. This was around ’84 or ’85.
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Country House Paradise People
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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Behind Happening Punk Revolution Some
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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Country People Punk Revolutionary Sanitation Strike
I think we grow into ourselves. And unfortunately we do it in the spotlight, so when we make mistakes, everybody knows about it.
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Mistake Spotlight Thinking
Everything I think in life is about context and intention.
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Intention Life Thinking
I think of myself more as a creative-type person, but it’s quite nice to be challenged physically and mentally.
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Challenge Mentally Physical Think
Part of me looks at the gay movement now and worries that we’re losing our individuality.
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Gay Individuality Worry
After half an hour the drug hit me like a sensuous tidal wave. I turned into a tactile temptress and wanted to stroke the whole world. It gave me untold confidence.
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Drug Half Sensuous Stroke World
Maybe without me, there wouldn’t be Adam Lambert. Without Bowie, there wouldn’t be me. Without Quentin Crisp, there wouldn’t have been Bowie. So everything is part of a big daisy chain.
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Big Everything Maybe People Without
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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Blessed Impart Listen Point Reach

I just go in my back garden. It’s the only place where people don’t come and bother you.

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