Top 249 Quotes & Sayings by Boy George

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Last updated on September 17, 2024.

George Alan O'Dowd, known professionally as Boy George, is an English singer, songwriter, DJ, fashion designer, mixed media artist, photographer and record producer. He is the lead singer of the pop band Culture Club. At the height of the band's fame in the 1980s, they recorded global hit songs "Karma Chameleon", "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me" and "Time ". George is known for his soulful voice and his androgynous appearance. He was part of the New Romantic movement which emerged in the late 1970s to early 1980s.

English - Musician | Born: June 14, 1961

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I just eat healthy and try not to eat late at night. And I exercise as well. That's a big change for me; I work out a lot.

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

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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.

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I knew that I was different when I was six years old, but it wasn't until I got to about 10 or 11 that I realised I was a gay man.

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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.

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My coming of age was in the '70s. A lot of people look back on it as a grim decade, but I look back on it as a liberating time.

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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.

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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.

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I also tried to avoid doing obvious dance records.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I knew style and content went hand in hand.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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For some strange reason, my gay life didn't get easier when I came out. Quite the opposite happened, really.

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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.

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A difficult crowd will always test your true ability.

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To be here in America so soon after the Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage and at the birth of the Caitlyn phenomena feels so timely. It feels perfect for my universe to collide with Caitlyn's, but on a purely personal level, I just think she is utterly fabulous and brave.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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Ziggy Stardust, the Village People, and punk rock really shaped who I am as a person and as a gay man.

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

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When I was 19 or 20 and doing my thing, I can't sit here and say I had this strong political agenda - I was literally just being myself.

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Unless you insult my mother or something, there is not much you could say to me that would really bother me.

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I'm always being inspired .

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

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

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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.

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

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I always think that change is like a daisy chain.

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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.

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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.

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

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In a way, the most political thing you can do is be yourself.

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There's no better time than now to be who you are.

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

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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.

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I suppose there is a lot of toughness in me.

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

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

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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.

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

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I was never a wallflower - I put my head on the style chopping block.

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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.

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

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I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.

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

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

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School is not a great place to have feminine features or a big nose, or to wear glasses or the wrong shoes.

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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.

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Top 249 Quotes & Sayings by Boy George

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