Words matter. These are the best Boy George Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I went to prison; therefore, I’ve been rehabilitated, and now I want to get on with my life. I have paid for what I did, end of story.
When you’re successful, people have no sympathy. Nobody wants to catch the tears of a millionaire.
When I got sober, I really felt like there was something that was missing from my life, Buddhism is something that I practice.
Ziggy Stardust, the Village People, and punk rock really shaped who I am as a person and as a gay man.
In a way, the most political thing you can do is be yourself.
There’s ‘Erewhon’, a whole big super store where they do incredible raw vegan food.
People in Scunthorpe don’t care what I say. And I’m not camp, either. I’m a geezer. I’m not a raving queer, I’ve got a bit of character. I just ignore people who shout at me in the street. I just stick my head in the air; I’m not interested.
I always feel that my whole life is representing the LGBT community. It’s kind of what I do all the time.
I think that’s the fascinating thing about the ’70s is that it turns out it was quite a dark decade. But, like, who knew?
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.
Part of me looks at the gay movement now and worries that we’re losing our individuality.
There’s no better time than now to be who you are.
In a way, we’re going backwards. In the early ’80s, it was like all these huge strides, and everything was more free and easy. I think we’re going back. I don’t know if it’s the economics or what, but things are getting more right-wing, definitely.
People say things about me all the time and I get over it. I’ve had some appalling things told about me.
For some strange reason, my gay life didn’t get easier when I came out. Quite the opposite happened, really.
When I was in prison, a lot of my friends blew me away. But Stephen Fry wrote to me. It was very humbling.
There are people you are madly in love with and thought you could never live without, and suddenly you break up and think, ‘What was I thinking?’.
I’m not responsible enough to have a dog – or a child.
When you’re in the world I’m in, sometimes you have to remember that when you see your friends, you need to ask them what they’ve been doing, and you need to grow up and learn your life isn’t necessarily more interesting than other people’s.
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.
There are lots of things about me that have changed. Some things are a process; some things take time.
I’m not in love, but I’m open to persuasion.
Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
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.
The more I dressed up, the more people reacted… the more I wanted to do it.
I’ve never felt as though I didn’t belong, I just acted as though I did.
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.
For someone like me, who has grown up with Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, it’s hard not to invest a lot of myself in what I do.
I consider myself much more of a blues singer now.
I was aware that the things that I did bothered people, but that only spurred me on even more.
There’s a guy in London named Ben Cohen who is doing great things. In a way, we need people like Ben – we need straight guys to come out and say, ‘What’re you worried about? Get over yourself.’ That’s what we need! Because no one’s listening to us – certainly, no one is listening to me.
If you go back to the ’80s, you had a whole plethora of artists, everyone from Madonna and Cyndi Lauper to Prince. God bless Lady Gaga for doing her thing, but she’s kind of a lone peacock now. If anything, we have a much more conservative kind of pop world. It’s not necessarily about individuality.
I’ve got so much to be happy about.
If you listen to the radio, and something beats you into surrender, like ‘REO Speedwagon’, and you really hate them, there’s ‘You Can Go Your Own Way’ in your ear all day, and that’s what makes a good song.
My appetite for self-destruction and misery is greatly diminished. I’m not interested in being unhappy.
I always say I’m Catholic in my complications and Buddhist in my aspirations.
Compliments are very un-British, but when someone pays you one, you should take it.
She’s probably in denial that she’s a great big ball of insecurity and I’m quite well aware that I am one.
Luckily, I’m not one of those people who wants to be young; it’s never bothered me.
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.
Unless you insult my mother or something, there is not much you could say to me that would really bother me.
I’ve sold a lot of records. I’ve sold, like, 150 million records, and I don’t think I’ve had that many good reviews. It’s one of those things that when you’re really successful, critics hate you just because you’re successful.
I’d rather they call me a national treasure than a national waste of time. And yes, it does feel good, but I’ve had to earn it.
In the morning, raw foodists don’t normally have breakfast. We have a lot of fluids. So I make all these different drinks which are quite strengthening.
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.
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.
I always judge my happiness by how much I listen to music.
Well there are those who think you can only succeed at someone else’s expense.
Let’s face it: I’ve got a bit of a reputation.
I wanted people not to care about whether you were gay, straight, black, white, transgender, whatever it may be… That being said, there’s more work to be done… I still want to change the world, absolutely.
I was never a wallflower – I put my head on the style chopping block.
I don’t know what the switch is from being insane to sane. It could be a number of things, what I eat, drink.
Sometimes, having a reputation can be the best thing because people expect you to be really difficult, perhaps a bit caustic, and hard work – and I’m none of those things.
America has always been my biggest audience, so I’m putting a lot of faith in America.
I’ve never shied away from country. ‘Karma Chameleon’ verges on country. Reggae and country are very closely linked. If you go to Jamaica, you hear a lot of country music. There’s a correlation.
I’ve grown up very much living my life very visibly. I’ve never really hidden who I am.
I think what I love most about the raw food thing is it’s real alchemy. It’s a really interesting science, and I think for a creative person, it’s a great way to eat.
The struggle isn’t just about being straight or gay or transgender – it’s a human struggle. That’s always really been my kind of starting point: If you’re out there and you’re odd, come over to my house.
I look at myself at 19 and think I would never do what I did then now! I was so brazen, so confident, so fearless in a way. And remember, the world was a very aggressive place then.
I was always good at music.
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.
I’ve given up coffee, made diet changes.
Even from the age of about 6 years old, I was kind of made to feel different by other kids – you know, I was a quite pretty kid, and I got called ‘girl’ a lot, and ‘woman’ and all of that. And school is really not a place to be different.
I also tried to avoid doing obvious dance records.
For artists of my caliber, we’re not played on the radio, so we don’t really get a chance to get involved in that debate at all. We don’t get a chance, because this weird kind of ageism exists in pop music. If you’re past a certain age, you’re not relevant. That’s the kind of cliched term.
At 16, I walked around knowing I’d get chased and attacked for dressing a certain way – I felt I had an undeniable right to be who I wanted to be. My father said to hit them back, but I was never much good at that. So I developed a big mouth instead of a quick right hook.
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.
I think life is about growing into yourself and getting to like that person.
I just go in my back garden. It’s the only place where people don’t come and bother you.
People that plan interviews are really boring. I just say what I want when it comes into my head.
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