The New Romantic scene was so tiny. Although it got lots of mileage in the media, it was a really small club with only a core group of people. As it got more popular, kids started to come from the suburbs all dressed up, but it -really wasn’t as big as it looked.
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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I suppose all of those New Romantic clubs were quite up their own asses in a way. Well, Taboo was up its own ass in a different way, but not in terms of rules.
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I’m always being inspired .
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You’re lucky if you reach the point where you go, “OK, I have a wonderful life …I fly around the world, stay in beautiful places, people are generally quite sweet to me, what’s to complain about?” But I think you have to get there…
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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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Everything I think in life is about context and intention.
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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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I’d got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.
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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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I 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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Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
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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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I think for me one of the big things was realizing that being Boy George is my job. It’s what I do.
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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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The most political thing you can do is be yourself
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I think these days, as an artist, you have to be slightly entrepreneurial. …Nobody really sells records anymore.
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