Most of my influences are from the past.
BOY GEORGESeparation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
More Boy George Quotes
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You can partake of the buffet a little bit more than you should, so you have to have a routine.
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I suppose I was seen more as an elder statesman because I had been around the London club scene for so many years. To the Taboo crowd I was really seen as a pop star, someone famous.
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Everyone loved the music but nobody liked the name. I -remember getting a postcard from Jon from L.A. saying, “I don’t think America’s ready for the Sex Gang Children.”
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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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The Taboo crowd was certainly less precious. They were happy to end up in a pile of vomit and booze at the end of the night. It was antifashion, in a sense. They were just as obsessive as the New -Romantics but they acted like they didn’t care.
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His designs were often breath-taking, but it was the way he used his body that was so utterly new and refreshing.
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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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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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You get older and you suddenly realize the only person you’re in competition with is yourself.
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Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance.
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I just go in my back garden. It’s the only place where people don’t come and bother you.
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I’m always being inspired .
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I’d got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.
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I’m not responsible enough to have a dog – or a child.
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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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