Leigh [Bowery] would make up stories about people committing suicide or going on hunger strikes because they were refused entry at the door.
Boy GeorgeRemember 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 GeorgeWarren Street was at the high end of the New Romantic scene. They were mostly college art students and people who knew top designers.
Boy GeorgeWhen 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 GeorgeMy 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. 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.
Boy George