Top 249 Quotes & Sayings by Boy George - Page 2

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.

It's funny that I'm so popular with seven-, eight-, nine-year-olds.

If you can write someone off as a bad person, then it's easier, but when someone is also great and noble and generous and kind and funny and contradictory, it gets harder.

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 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 don't want to be a figure of disappointment.

Compliments are very un-British, but when someone pays you one, you should take it.

I look back now, and most of the drama in my life was self-inflicted. I don't need to make up so much drama now.

You're in a band with someone, it doesn't necessarily mean you're going to agree with everything they think or do.

I love American positivity.

My appetite for self-destruction and misery is greatly diminished. I'm not interested in being unhappy.

Sly Stone made such a huge contribution to the good feeling in the universe, and I love him as a singer.

I was always good at music.

America has always been my biggest audience, so I'm putting a lot of faith in America.

I used to tell my mum to leave my dad when I was, like, nine. I loved my father, don't get me wrong. I really loved him, but he wasn't a good dad, and he wasn't a good husband.

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.

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.

My dad was very explosive, God rest his soul. He could fly off the handle like no one I've ever known, and I have definitely got that in my personality: that ability to sort of smash the house up and then say, 'Put the kettle on,' to have that kind of attitude of, 'Well, I'm OK now, so everybody else has got to be OK.'

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.

As an outsider, you don't think of Australia as being old-fashioned - it's only when you've been here for a period of time when you realise there are issues.

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.

I always say I'm Catholic in my complications and Buddhist in my aspirations.

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

I don't really feel part of the pop scene.

I'm much more interested in working and getting on with my music.

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.

I've got so much to be happy about.

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.

When I put out 'Same Thing In Reverse,' I was told categorically that this will never get played in America.

I never really tell lies, and sometimes it has worked against me.

I think there's something really powerful about being yourself.

I try to find happiness in almost anything... watching videos about new exercises, like ones you can do on a flight when you clench your buttocks.

When I got sober, I really felt like there was something that was missing from my life, Buddhism is something that I practice.

I don't listen to the radio, so I don't really know what's going on in current pop culture. I know about the obvious things, like Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber and Ed Sheeran and Adele, because I hear them. They're everywhere.

Adele is selling millions of records, and everybody tries to sing like Adele.

School is a scary place for kids. So I didn't like it, and I didn't want to be there. And it was a great day for me when they threw me out.

There are lots of things about me that have changed. Some things are a process; some things take 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?

People that plan interviews are really boring. I just say what I want when it comes into my head.

To me, I think of the '70s as being this glorious decade where I discovered who I was and discovered all these amazing things... punk rock, electro music, fashion, all of that.

I DJ'd and sang at Miami Basel 2013.

When I was in prison, a lot of my friends blew me away. But Stephen Fry wrote to me. It was very humbling.

You have social networking, and you can do things efficiently without the might of a big label.

I didn't think anyone was going to buy 'Do You Really Wanna Hurt Me?' It was really personal, not a hit record, I thought. I wanted us to sound completely different. Shows how much I knew.

I never thought I'd be doing records a year after I started - I had no idea it would last as long as it did.

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

I can be quite noisy and robust in the morning.

I forgive very easily, and I suppose, in the same way, I expect to be forgiven very easily as well. I grew up with that.

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.

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.

I can't even read music. All I know is whether I think it sounds good and if I like what I'm doing.

On the street, on the train - I pull my hat down, and nobody knows it's me. I always wanted the kind of fame that came with an off button.

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.

Bands like Culture Club and artists like me, you tend to concentrate on the live arena because that's where you can be your most authentic. That's where you have the most power.

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.

Seeing bored-looking fans staring at you while you DJ is about as horrible as it gets.

You don't walk like other boys. You don't talk like other boys. But at six, you are not thinking about your sexuality.

In the early part of the '70s, we had glam rock, but we also had reggae and ska happening at the same time. I just took all those influences I had as a kid and threw them together, and somehow it works.

I'm not in love, but I'm open to persuasion.

My dad was quite an extreme man.