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Boy George Quotes

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

– 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 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

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 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

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

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

– Boy George

You get much more done if you go to bed early and get up early.

– Boy George

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

– Boy George

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

– 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

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 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

I suppose there is a lot of toughness in me.

– 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 knew style and content went hand in hand.

– Boy George

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

– Boy George

I’m being honest, I say what I think.

– Boy George

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

– Boy George

I’m always being inspired .

– Boy George

An actor is a guy who, if you ain’t talking about him, he ain’t listening.

– 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

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

I’m not responsible enough to have a dog – or a child.

– Boy George

Part of me looks at the gay movement now and worries that we’re losing our individuality.

– Boy George

I also tried to avoid doing obvious dance records.

– Boy George