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 GEORGEWhat’s really sad is that a lot of very talented people are being forced to do things that are very embarrassing and I don’t intend to be one of them.
More Boy George Quotes
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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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I have the best job in the world. There’s not really a lot to moan or whine about. I’ve got the privilege of going out and doing something I absolutely love.
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I 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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In writing the autobiography, I can really chuckle when I look at the songs. I was acting out the part. I saw myself as a victim.
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I don’t get all this Speedo stuff actually, I mean, whatever happened to the feather boa?
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You have to watch what you eat.
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The world is less homophobic, depending on where you are in the world…
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I’d got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.
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For me with “The Apprentice,” it kind of blew out my business brain. I don’t really think of myself as a business person.
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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 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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You had disco going on behind punk. You had Michael Jackson. You had the Sex Pistols.
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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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I am what I am. There’s nothing I can do about it.
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The band never actually split up – we just stopped speaking to each other and went our own separate ways.
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