You find out so many interesting things when you’re not on drugs.
BOY GEORGEHis designs were often breath-taking, but it was the way he used his body that was so utterly new and refreshing.
More Boy George Quotes
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Gay unions, what is that about? I haven’t been invited to any ceremonies, and I wouldn’t go anyway.
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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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For me, touring is about looking after myself.
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I like the big bombastic singers, but I’m also very drawn to what I call character singers.
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One door closes and another one opens.
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As a kid, I would’ve loved to get a tweet from David Bowie or Joan Rivers or Tom Cruise. It’s great that you can communicate with people and it’s instant.
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The band never actually split up – we just stopped speaking to each other and went our own separate ways.
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Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
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Leigh [Bowery] would make up stories about people committing suicide or going on hunger strikes because they were refused entry at the door.
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You had disco going on behind punk. You had Michael Jackson. You had the Sex Pistols.
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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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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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Taboo was kind of celebrating trash, the kind of records you secretly loved, like Yes Sir, I Can Boogie, by Baccara [laughs] – things that you probably shouldn’t like.
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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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You have to watch what you eat.
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