Boy George Quotes & Sayings

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

I'd got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty. — Boy George

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

People say things about me all the time and I get over it. I've had some appalling things told about me. — Boy George

I'm not someone who can sing anything. And my favorite singers aren't people whose voice you would say is amazing. 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. — Boy George

Voting for New Labour is like helping an old lady across the road while screaming 'Get a move on!' Even the Tories, who you could once rely on to be completely heartless are pretending to care. — Boy George

I wasn't part of the Taboo crowd the same way I was part of the New Romantics. I suppose I was seen more as an elder statesman because I had been around the London club scene for so many years. To the Taboo crowd I was really seen as a pop star, someone famous. — Boy George

What happened during the previews of Taboo [ musical] was that it was the first time I'd ever been written about as a great song-writer - I cried. I absolutely wept, because it wasn't the usual stuff like, "Oh, he was a drug addict and he did this and that ... " It was really looking at the music and it was really complimentary. It was a huge thing. — Boy George

I was approached by this guy Chris Renshaw, who had read my book and had read Leigh's book. He wanted to incorporate both characters - he probably felt Leigh wasn't famous enough and he realized Leigh [Bowery] and I were associated. — Boy George

Go home. Let me do my community service. — Boy George

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

I am what I am. There's nothing I can do about it. — Boy George

Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance. — Boy George

There's this illusion that homosexuals have sex and heterosexuals fall in love. That's completely untrue. Everybody wants to be loved. — Boy George

Gay unions, what is that about? I haven't been invited to any ceremonies, and I wouldn't go anyway. The idea that gay people have to mimic what obviously doesn't work for straight people any more ... I think is a bit tragic. I am looking forward to gay divorces. — Boy George

Whenever there's an interview with me, I might read it, but I don't read the comments because they're so hateful sometimes. When someone writes something nasty, I just think, "If that's your contribution to my day, I really don't need your impoliteness." I'm lucky that people are very cool with me and I get a lot of love. I appreciate that. — Boy George

I also tried to avoid doing obvious dance records. — Boy George

My life hasn't always been a disaster, it's just that when it has, it's been a spectacular disaster. — Boy George

We were fighting about nothing important while dreaming of the same things. — Boy George

Jail's like school but you can't leave. — Boy George

I've had to write in a different way because I'm not in a bad place and I'm not heartbroken, so there's no one I want revenge on. — Boy George

I'm Catholic In My Complications And Buddhist In My Aspirations'

~George O'dowd — Boy George

I'm not responsible enough to have a dog - or a child. — Boy George

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

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

I suppose all of those New Romantic clubs were quite up their own asses in a way. Well, Taboo was up its own ass in a different way, but not in terms of rules. — Boy George

Every freak has a mother. When I met Marilyn Manson I was struck by how nice he was. People are rarely as weird as you anticipate. Except for Courtney Love-who reminded me of that mad snake in The Jungle Book. — Boy George

I remember going onstage on Broadway in this Leigh Bowery thing for a track like "Ich Bin Kunst." I've got breasts, this latex dripping down on my head, and I come out in a box. I just remember the audience looking really horrified because Rosie [O'Donnell] was trying to sell the show as sort of Pippin and Annie. She was saying it's a family show. — Boy George

I've never felt as though I didn't belong, I just acted as though I did. — Boy George

Well there are those who think you can only succeed at someone else's expense. — Boy George

Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance. — Boy George

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

I can do anything. In GQ, I appeared as a man. — Boy George

I didn't think anyone was going to buy 'Do You Really Wanna Hurt Me?' It was really personal, not a hit record, I thought. I wanted us to sound completely different. Shows how much I knew. — Boy George

I'm a big fan of Yoko, one of those weird people who really love her music, and who argues with people all the time, because people do write her off. — Boy George

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

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

I knew style and content went hand in hand. — Boy George

For me the most interesting thing about Leigh Bowery was the way he used his body as a style statement. He was a big guy, but, because he was tall and had long legs, he looked in proportion - even sexy - -despite being overweight by conventional -standards. — Boy George

Leigh Bowery was actually quoted as saying, "Flesh is my most favorite fabric." I've seen many a freak make a scene and go, but Leigh was a special kind of exhibitionist because he was dedicated and saw it as an art form. — Boy George

Sex has never been an obsession with me. It's just like eating a bag of crisps. Quite nice, but nothing marvellous. — Boy George

I know that there are some people who don't like me, and that kind of surprises me more than the people who love me. — Boy George

We changed the name from Sex Gang Children to Culture Club because Jon Moss, our drummer, went to L.A. on holiday and took some demo tapes with him. -Everyone loved the music but nobody liked the name. I -remember getting a postcard from Jon from L.A. saying, "I don't think America's ready for the Sex Gang Children." — Boy George

I'm much more interested in working and getting on with my music. — Boy George

When I first went to New York, I didn't really go out to clubs. It was the height of Culture Club so I didn't really have a social life. It was only after I had been to New York a few times that I started going out. — Boy George

The fabulous side of Taboo was dressing up and dancing like no one was watching you. There were no rules. You had Jeffrey Hinton playing every kind of music. It was like going back to when I used to deejay at Planet in '79, where you'd mix in nutty things like hip-hop or reggae or The Sound of Music [1965] or other film soundtracks - whatever. — Boy George

Drugs became an obsession, like Culture Club had been, like religion later became although I'm through with that now. — Boy George

My God is better than your God — Boy George

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

You find out so many interesting things when you're not on drugs. — Boy George

Being in the Boy Scouts, you don't think about whether people are gay or straight. You're busy putting up tents and learning to cut sausages. — Boy George

Leigh [Bowery ] obviously loved having me in the club because I would attract media, and he loved and lived for his column inches. — Boy George

Leigh Bowery created outfits that made him look deformed, which was very brave. I believe this was the main thing that gave Leigh his edge. His designs were often breath-taking, but it was the way he used his body that was so utterly new and refreshing. — Boy George

I'm not gay, and I'm not a transvestite. — Boy George

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. — Boy George

I just go in my back garden. It's the only place where people don't come and bother you. — Boy George

Madonna is a living, breathing cash register. — Boy George

Tweeting is something you can do wherever you are, on your phone, on the computer, in an airport lounge. It's easy to do, and I do find it fun to communicate with people. It's quite nice that we can have almost direct contact with anyone in the world at any time. I don't know how important it is in terms of one's career. It seems to be pretty much superfluous in terms of that, but it's nice to communicate. — Boy George

The best thing you can do is work on your personality because we're all gonna get ugly. — Boy George

In writing the autobiography, I can really chuckle when I look at the songs. I was acting out the part. I saw myself as a victim. — Boy George

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

I absolutely admit I had him in the handcuffs so he wouldn't go anywhere while I checked the computer ... I certainly wasn't going to kill him. That's hardly going to do my career any good, is it? — Boy George

I was unwelcome in the U.S. for four years. — Boy George

I used to think of George Michael as being mechanical, like a scientist in a white coat, working in a laboratory, creating perfect harmonies, and all the while I was secretly admiring him. — Boy George

I suppose there is a lot of toughness in me. — Boy George

The most political thing you can do is be yourself — Boy George

Taboo was kind of celebrating trash, the kind of records you secretly loved, like Yes Sir, I Can Boogie, by Baccara [laughs] - things that you probably shouldn't like. — Boy George

The band never actually split up - we just stopped speaking to each other and went our own separate ways. — Boy George

And being gay isn't so easy, either I've always said that if anyone ever thought I was straight they must need glasses - but when I finally came out and said, "Yes, I do sleep with men and I'm gay," yeah, I lost record sales. There's no question - big, big time. — Boy George

I felt that making records in a traditional way - putting them out in the same way, wasting loads of money - was just a pointless exercise. — Boy George

The New Romantic scene was so tiny. Although it got lots of mileage in the media, it was a really small club with only a core group of people. As it got more popular, kids started to come from the suburbs all dressed up, but it -really wasn't as big as it looked. — Boy George

I don't play big stadium-style dance, but I have discovered, to my delight, that the appetite for real low slung deep house is very much alive. — Boy George

I would rather have a cup of tea than sex. — Boy George

Very few people can truly divorce themselves from what they feel emotionally and sexually. — Boy George

I've never been a bad person and always had quite good morals. There's always been a side of me that's been quite proper, but it's got distracted here and there. Now I'm the person I should be. — Boy George

I'm always being inspired . — Boy George

Seeing bored-looking fans staring at you while you DJ is about as horrible as it gets. — Boy George

Karma chameleon: we come and go, we come and go ... — Boy George

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. — Boy George

Warren Street was at the high end of the New Romantic scene. They were mostly college art students and people who knew top designers. — Boy George

I'm very uncomfortable with the idea of vaginas. They bother me in the way that spiders bother some people. — Boy George

Luckily, I'm not one of those people who wants to be young; it's never bothered me. — Boy George

Leigh [ Bowery] would make up stories about people committing suicide or going on hunger strikes because they were refused entry at the door. — Boy George

Certain punk bands were influential because I thought, If they can do that then I can .Hanging around those bands was how I started my first band - In Praise of Lemmings. — Boy George

The world is less homophobic, depending on where you are in the world. As a gay man I feel very strongly about those issues around the world - there've been huge changes and developments, but there are still places where things are scary. — Boy George

Comparing Madonna with Marilyn Monroe is like comparing Raquel Welch with the back of a bus. — Boy George

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

The most significant New York club for me was Paradise Garage, where they played house music. This was around '84 or '85. — Boy George

Not knowing when to shut up was one of my greatest faults. — Boy George

I don't want to be a figure of disappointment. — Boy George

I always feel that my whole life is representing the LGBT community. It's kind of what I do all the time. — Boy George

Leigh [Bowery] affected a posh English voice and elongated his vowels, and you never knew if he was being sincere or mocking you. If I ever commented on one of his outfits he would snip, "Oh, thank you, Mr. Boy George. I do value your opinion." And then he would spin and make some ridiculous noise and mince off. — Boy George

Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you can handle, and if you come out the other end with some wisdom, then it's not such a bad thing. — Boy George

After half an hour the drug hit me like a sensuous tidal wave. I turned into a tactile temptress and wanted to stroke the whole world. It gave me untold confidence. — Boy George

As a kid, I would've loved to get a tweet from David Bowie or Joan Rivers or Tom Cruise. It's great that you can communicate with people and it's instant. — Boy George

Part of me looks at the gay movement now and worries that we're losing our individuality. — Boy George

A difficult crowd will always test your true ability. — Boy George

I'm of the opinion that as a DJ you must always play what you love and ignore what's 'trendy' because true passion always eclipses what's fashionable. Quality is always fashionable. — Boy George

I think being individual in the show business is what gives you life and longevity. — Boy George

That's the strange thing about love. One minute you can have your tongue up someone's arse, and the next you can't even communicate. — Boy George