Boy George Quotes

I also tried to avoid doing obvious dance records.

Leigh [Bowery] would create fake guest lists and put the most ridiculous names on them - Joan Collins, or really naff soap stars who would never grace the door of Taboo.

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

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.

A difficult crowd will always test your true ability.

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

I was really good friends with Matthew Ashman, the guitarist in Bow Wow Wow. He died, unfortunately. He was one of my best friends during my sort of punk period.

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.

I was unwelcome in the U.S. for four years.

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.

[Arnold Schwarzenegger] is really good at ['The New Celebrity Apprentice' show]. Totally different energy to our potential president, but he's cool.

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

I think these days, as an artist, you have to be slightly entrepreneurial. ...Nobody really sells records anymore.

I'm always being inspired .

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?

I was about 16 when punk started to happen... It felt like you had this naive idea that you could change things just by wearing something.

Someone once said a cynic is just a disappointed romantic. That really, really sums me up.

I think we grow into ourselves. And unfortunately we do it in the spotlight, so when we make mistakes, everybody knows about it.

I find that most people [in social media] just want me to say "happy birthday" to their mom or wish them good luck with their exams.

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

You have to watch what you eat.

Most of my influences are from the past.

You have to eat at a certain time and eat properly.

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

Personality is a real aphrodisiac, when somebody is charming or funny. I think certain jobs attract certain types of people.

Don't talk about things you don't like. Talk about music that you love, books that you've read. I put a lot of recipes online.

[Arnold Schwarzenegger] is funny. Some great one-liners, some great banter between him and the contestants [on "The Apprentice" ]. And he's good!

I'm much more careful now about who I let into my life, but I don't think you could ever change what you're attracted to. You can make choices if you want to be with those people.

I don't know whether when I was 20 years old or 25 years old if somebody would have come along with incredible wisdom whether I would have really listened.

I'm always tweeting about food and things that I've made.

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

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.

When you're successful, people have no sympathy. Nobody wants to catch the tears of a millionaire.

I've given up coffee, made diet changes.