Boy George Quotes

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

The most political thing you can do is be yourself

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

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

Karma chameleon: we come and go, we come and go.

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

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.

Everything I think in life is about context and intention.

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

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

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.

If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.

I don't get all this Speedo stuff actually, I mean, whatever happened to the feather boa?

Go home. Let me do my community service.

Sometimes indifference can be so erotic. I think the people who are most dismissive of you get the most of your attention.

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

When you go onstage, you go on there to have a good time, and you smile and you engage with the audience and you invite them in.

It's [Jail's] like being at school. Except you can't leave.

When I go onstage, I'm going to work ...I feel like my performance is about an emotional connection. I want to connect with people, whether it's like a romantic song or a happy song.

I suppose there is a lot of toughness in me.

She's probably in denial that she's a great big ball of insecurity and I'm quite well aware that I am one.

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

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.

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

I'm being honest, I say what I think.

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

One door closes and another one opens.

I think for me one of the big things was realizing that being Boy George is my job. It's what I do.

Madonna is a "living, breathing cash register."

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

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

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.

[Getting older is] experience but it's also changing your mindset.

I have the best job in the world. There's not really a lot to moan or whine about. I've got the privilege of going out and doing something I absolutely love.

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.

For me, I've gotten better at that since I've gotten older. I never was good at that when I was younger.

In fact, he [George Michael] was loitering in public loos like some pre-war homosexual. It's one thing to keep quiet. It's another to pretend you're someone you're not.

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

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

I exercise. I go to the gym every day. It's about respecting what you're doing. You're going on stage. You have to sleep. You have to be prepared.

For me, touring is about looking after myself.

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

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.

My God is better than your God

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I knew style and content went hand in hand.