Whenever there’s an interview with me, I might read it, but I don’t read the comments because they’re so hateful sometimes.
BOY GEORGEExcept for Courtney Love-who reminded me of that mad snake in The Jungle Book.
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For me, I’ve gotten better at that since I’ve gotten older. I never was good at that when I was younger.
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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 was about 16 when punk started to happen. It was so exciting. You had a social depression going on in the U.K. There was a sanitation strike. London was really grim, gray. You had Margaret Thatcher coming in. It was a really revolutionary time.
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The fabulous side of Taboo was dressing up and dancing like no one was watching you. There were no rules.
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The best thing you can do is work on your personality because we’re all gonna get ugly.
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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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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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When I first went to New York, I didn’t really go out to clubs. It was the height of Culture Club so I didn’t really have a social life. It was only after I had been to New York a few times that I started going out.
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I’m always being inspired .
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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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She’s probably in denial that she’s a great big ball of insecurity and I’m quite well aware that I am one.
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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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I think being individual in the show business is what gives you life and longevity.
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The idea that gay people have to mimic what obviously doesn’t work for straight people any more… I think is a bit tragic. I am looking forward to gay divorces.
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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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