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.
BOY GEORGEI try to exist in a world where there is freedom of opinion, where you’re allowed to make jokes. I don’t want to live in some PC world where no-one’s allowed to say anything.
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As a gay man I feel very strongly about those issues around the world – there’ve been huge changes and developments, but there are still places where things are scary.
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You have to watch what you eat.
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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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On Madonna: She’s a gay man trapped in a woman’s body.
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I knew style and content went hand in hand.
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Everything I think in life is about context and intention.
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Leigh [Bowery] would create fake guest lists and put the most ridiculous names on them – Joan Collins, or really naff soap stars who would never grace the door of Taboo.
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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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The ultimate goal is to be more satisfied. I really don’t believe you get wiser because you get older. It’s a choice, perhaps not to take some things so seriously
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For me the most interesting thing about Leigh Bowery was the way he used his body as a style statement. He was a big guy, but, because he was tall and had long legs, he looked in proportion – even sexy – despite being overweight by conventional standards.
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I was unwelcome in the U.S. for four years.
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I’d got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.
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I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.
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The world is less homophobic, depending on where you are in the world…
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Certainly for me, when punk exploded in the 1970s, it was just great. We had these wonderful clothes to wear.
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