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.
BOY GEORGEI’m not responsible enough to have a dog – or a child.
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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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The problem with being on the road – especially in a hot place like Florida – is that you can begin to think you’re on holiday.
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I am thinking of George Michael’s family, friends and fans. He was so loved and I hope he knew it because the sadness today is beyond words. Devastating.
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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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On Madonna: She’s a gay man trapped in a woman’s body.
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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’m always being inspired .
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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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I just go in my back garden. It’s the only place where people don’t come and bother you.
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Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
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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 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 Taboo crowd was certainly less precious. They were happy to end up in a pile of vomit and booze at the end of the night. It was antifashion, in a sense. They were just as obsessive as the New -Romantics but they acted like they didn’t care.
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I think people could be a bit friendlier. The only real contact you have with people is when they’re annoyed if you’ve had a party – you know, it’s been a bit too noisy for them or something.
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My God is better than your God
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