On Madonna: She’s a gay man trapped in a woman’s body.
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.
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A lot of people come up to me all the time and say thank you for helping me be who I am. So my thing wasn’t just about sexuality. It was about anyone who felt different; anyone who felt out of place. Being gay was one part of it.
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Remember that I was out of the closet at the age of sixteen. My parents knew I was gay; I’d had to tell them.
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You have to watch what you eat.
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You have to eat at a certain time and eat properly.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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So much happened in that 10-year span. There were so many musical revolutions. Some were happening at the same time.
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One door closes and another one opens.
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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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What’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.
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I’m always being inspired .
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The ultimate goal is to be more satisfied. I really don’t believe you get wiser because you get older. It’s a choice, perhaps not to take some things so seriously
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