I think for me one of the big things was realizing that being Boy George is my job. It’s what I do.
BOY GEORGEA lot of what I’ve been learning in the last two years is due to therapy – about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven’t worked. It isn’t anything to do with anybody else; it’s to do with me.
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I think these days, as an artist, you have to be slightly entrepreneurial. …Nobody really sells records anymore.
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Maybe without me, there wouldn’t be Adam Lambert. Without Bowie, there wouldn’t be me. Without Quentin Crisp, there wouldn’t have been Bowie. So everything is part of a big daisy chain.
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I’d got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.
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When you’re younger, you think you’re in competition with everyone. You think everyone’s success is a threat to you, and this is a thing you grow out of.
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You find out so many interesting things when you’re not on drugs.
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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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I just go in my back garden. It’s the only place where people don’t come and bother you.
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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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Whenever there’s an interview with me, I might read it, but I don’t read the comments because they’re so hateful sometimes.
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You had disco going on behind punk. You had Michael Jackson. You had the Sex Pistols.
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Except for Courtney Love-who reminded me of that mad snake in The Jungle Book.
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Everything I think in life is about context and intention.
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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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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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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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