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The most political thing you can do is be yourself

Boy George

She’s probably in denial that she’s a great big ball of insecurity and I’m quite well aware that I am one.
BOY GEORGE

Balls Big Denial Insecurity Probably
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.
BOY GEORGE

Absolutely Compliment Drug Huge Thing
A lot of people felt I was getting work because I was Boy George. My response at the time was that there’s a lot of DJs making records, they’re not all making good records, but they have the right to do that.
BOY GEORGE

Boys People Records Response Work
I think we grow into ourselves. And unfortunately we do it in the spotlight, so when we make mistakes, everybody knows about it.
BOY GEORGE

Mistake Spotlight Thinking
I don’t get all this Speedo stuff actually, I mean, whatever happened to the feather boa?
BOY GEORGE

Actually Mean Speedos Stuff
The 1970s was probably the most exciting decade to be a teenager, from discovering Little Richard at the end of the 1960s to glam rock to punk rock to electro music.
BOY GEORGE

Discovering Rocks Sex Teenager
His designs were often breath-taking, but it was the way he used his body that was so utterly new and refreshing.
BOY GEORGE

Breath Designing Refreshing Talking
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.
BOY GEORGE

Family Horrified Looking Remember Show
Certainly for me, when punk exploded in the 1970s, it was just great. We had these wonderful clothes to wear.
BOY GEORGE

Clothes Hair Kids Wonderful
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.
BOY GEORGE

Drug Half Sensuous Stroke World
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.
BOY GEORGE

Incredibles Old Somebody Years
I’m always being inspired .
BOY GEORGE

Always Being Inspired
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.
BOY GEORGE

Levels Media Writing
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.
BOY GEORGE

Almost Contact Important Superficial Term
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.
BOY GEORGE

House Kissed Leisure London
I’d got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.
BOY GEORGE

Empty Felt Successful

The most political thing you can do is be yourself

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