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Boy George
English
Musician
About the author
I started going to Madame Louise's, the lesbian club where all the punk bands used to go - the Sex Pistols, the Clash. I remember seeing Billy Idol walk in there; he was gorgeous.
Boy George,
English
Musician
#Sex
#Punk
#Lesbian
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.
Boy George,
English
Musician
#Want
#World
#Freedom
#Opinion
#Jokes
People say things about me all the time and I get over it. I've had some appalling things told about me.
Boy George,
English
Musician
#Time
#People
Part of me looks at the gay movement now and worries that we're losing our individuality.
Boy George,
English
Musician
#Now
#Losing
#Individuality
#Gay
My mother and father were fantastic, very active. I find it difficult to say this, but I'm quite a loving person and I've always been loving to my friends. In the long run, that pays off. I'm very interested in other people, and if you are, they're interested in you.
Boy George,
English
Musician
#People
#Friends
#Mother
#Father
I'm not responsible enough to have a dog - or a child.
Boy George,
English
Musician
I'm being honest, I say what I think.
Boy George,
English
Musician
#Being
I'm always being inspired .
Boy George,
English
Musician
#Being
I'd got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.
Boy George,
English
Musician
#Successful
I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.
Boy George,
English
Musician
#Sex
#Tea
I was unwelcome in the U.S. for four years.
Boy George,
English
Musician
#Years
A 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.
Boy George,
English
Musician
#Relationships
#Years
#Wrong
#Learning
#Sexuality
#Therapy
I suppose there is a lot of toughness in me.
Boy George,
English
Musician
I knew style and content went hand in hand.
Boy George,
English
Musician
#Style
#Content
I just go in my back garden. It's the only place where people don't come and bother you.
Boy George,
English
Musician
#People
#Garden
I can do anything. In GQ, I appeared as a man.
Boy George,
English
Musician
#Man
I also tried to avoid doing obvious dance records.
Boy George,
English
Musician
#Dance
#Obvious
Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance.
Boy George,
English
Musician
#Drama
#Appearance
An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening.
Boy George,
English
Musician
#Talking
#Actor
#Listening
A 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.
Boy George,
English
Musician
#Time
#Right
#People
#Work
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.
Boy George,
English
Musician
#People
#Party
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 George,
English
Musician
#Time
#Culture
#London
#Leisure
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.
Boy George,
English
Musician
#People
#Being
Very few people can truly divorce themselves from what they feel emotionally and sexually.
Boy George,
English
Musician
#People
#Divorce
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.
Boy George,
English
Musician
#Choice
#Goal
She's probably in denial that she's a great big ball of insecurity and I'm quite well aware that I am one.
Boy George,
English
Musician
#Insecurity
#Denial
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.
Boy George,
English
Musician
#Age
#Parents
#Gay
Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
Boy George,
English
Musician
#Separation
Well there are those who think you can only succeed at someone else's expense.
Boy George,
English
Musician
#Succeed