When I go onstage, I’m going to work …I feel like my performance is about an emotional connection. I want to connect with people, whether it’s like a romantic song or a happy song.
BOY GEORGEA 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.
More Boy George Quotes
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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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Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance.
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Personality is a real aphrodisiac, when somebody is charming or funny. I think certain jobs attract certain types of people.
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Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
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Except for Courtney Love-who reminded me of that mad snake in The Jungle Book.
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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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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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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 was about 16 when punk started to happen… It felt like you had this naive idea that you could change things just by wearing something.
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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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I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.
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I’d got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.
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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’m always being inspired .
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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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