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.
BOY GEORGEMadonna is a “living, breathing cash register.”
More Boy George Quotes
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My family knew I was gay when I was 15, long before I got famous. But it’s a very different thing coming out to your family and coming out to the universe. That’s a big step.
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I was unwelcome in the U.S. for four years.
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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.
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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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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 get older and you suddenly realize the only person you’re in competition with is yourself.
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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 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.
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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.
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I’m always tweeting about food and things that I’ve made.
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The most political thing you can do is be yourself
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I knew style and content went hand in hand.
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I think being individual in the show business is what gives you life and longevity.
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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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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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