The fabulous side of Taboo was dressing up and dancing like no one was watching you. There were no rules.
BOY GEORGEI 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.
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I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.
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I cried. I absolutely wept, because it wasn’t the usual stuff like, “Oh, he was a drug addict and he did this and that…” It was really looking at the music and it was really complimentary. It was a huge thing.
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I’m not responsible enough to have a dog – or a child.
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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.
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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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You had disco going on behind punk. You had Michael Jackson. You had the Sex Pistols.
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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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Most of my influences are from the past.
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Voting for New Labour is like helping an old lady across the road while screaming ‘Get a move on!’ Even the Tories, who you could once rely on to be completely heartless are pretending to care.
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I don’t get all this Speedo stuff actually, I mean, whatever happened to the feather boa?
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Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
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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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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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Except for Courtney Love-who reminded me of that mad snake in The Jungle Book.
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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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