Everything I think in life is about context and intention.
BOY GEORGEI 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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I like the big bombastic singers, but I’m also very drawn to what I call character singers.
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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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You have to eat at a certain time and eat properly.
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I’m not someone who can sing anything… And my favorite singers aren’t people whose voice you would say is amazing.
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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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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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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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Except for Courtney Love-who reminded me of that mad snake in The Jungle Book.
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I’m always being inspired .
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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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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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You had disco going on behind punk. You had Michael Jackson. You had the Sex Pistols.
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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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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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I don’t know whether when I was 20 years old or 25 years old if somebody would have come along with incredible wisdom whether I would have really listened.
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