Top 249 Quotes & Sayings by Boy George - Page 3

I don't know what the switch is from being insane to sane. It could be a number of things, what I eat, drink.

As for Madonna, I always used to laugh at her running. And now I run! I get why she always ran. I wish I'd run when she did.

There's always going to be something said that hurts you.

I had an explosion on my vocal chord.

I might be being controversial, but I think Seal fancies the pants off Delta, and her pants are tight.

I went back to DJ'ing in 1987, and it's been an incredible second career for me. Plus, it's almost a parallel universe. If you don't go to underground clubs, you wouldn't know what I do or who I am. So there's been a whole new audience of people that don't even know I'm that 'Boy George', the one their mother used to like.

I get over things really quickly, and I feel like in this business, you have to be like that.

I've grown up very much living my life very visibly. I've never really hidden who I am.

Lots of headless chickens running around - artists with 14 million followers on Twitter, some making millions, none making cultural impact.

I was sick. I had a polyp on my throat. It would have been foolish for me to go out on the road with the problem I had.

My audience here in America is so eclectic. It's a real mix of people, which is great. Like what I was doing with Culture Club - world music, multiculturalism - not defining everything in terms of sexuality or color. It was about everyone coming together and being part of something.

People like my honesty. When I'm sane, I'm very much myself.

There's 'Erewhon', a whole big super store where they do incredible raw vegan food.

I'm a much more successful and happier person sober. And I'm nicer to be around.

The more I dressed up, the more people reacted... the more I wanted to do it.

In the morning, raw foodists don't normally have breakfast. We have a lot of fluids. So I make all these different drinks which are quite strengthening.

I was aware that the things that I did bothered people, but that only spurred me on even more.

I had to go off to do my own thing, to get my confidence as a writer, and a performer.

I always judge my happiness by how much I listen to music.

Let's face it: I've got a bit of a reputation.

Fans want more; they want you to perform in their living room. That's the nature of the beast.

I consider myself much more of a blues singer now.

There are people you are madly in love with and thought you could never live without, and suddenly you break up and think, 'What was I thinking?'.

I've given up coffee, made diet changes.

I think what I love most about the raw food thing is it's real alchemy. It's a really interesting science, and I think for a creative person, it's a great way to eat.

I think life is about growing into yourself and getting to like that person.

Before I got famous, I was like a rake. When I was a teenager, I lived on nervous energy. And I always forgot to eat. It was not something I was obsessed with. And then suddenly I got famous, people started taking me out to fancy joints. And the pounds pile on. So I'm much more conscious now about when I eat. How I eat. What I eat.

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.

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.

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

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

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

The most political thing you can do is be yourself

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

We changed the name from Sex Gang Children to Culture Club because Jon Moss, our drummer, went to L.A. on holiday and took some demo tapes with him. -Everyone loved the music but nobody liked the name. I -remember getting a postcard from Jon from L.A. saying, "I don't think America's ready for the Sex Gang Children."

A lot of people come up to me all the time and say thank you for helping me be who I am. So my thing wasn't just about sexuality. It was about anyone who felt different; anyone who felt out of place. Being gay was one part of it.

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

I was about 16 when punk started to happen. It was so exciting. You had a social depression going on in the U.K. There was a sanitation strike. London was really grim, gray. You had Margaret Thatcher coming in. It was a really revolutionary time.

I mean, Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, I think the young kids sell lot of records. But for an older kind of artist, more of a sort of heritage, vintage type of artist, you have to think outside the box.

Everything I think in life is about context and intention.

Every freak has a mother. When I met Marilyn Manson I was struck by how nice he was. People are rarely as weird as you anticipate. Except for Courtney Love-who reminded me of that mad snake in The Jungle Book.

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

There's this illusion that homosexuals have sex and heterosexuals fall in love. That's completely untrue. Everybody wants to be loved.

You have to watch what you eat.

I enjoy the freedom of living alone and not having anyone interfere with my belongings. I mean, I'm quite a selfish human being. I think being in the public eye and growing up, it's made me quite selfish in some respects. I can be extremely generous with friends, but in relationships I can be quite mean in terms of my time and my affections. I take people for granted, and I'm trying not to do that.

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.

On Madonna: She's a gay man trapped in a woman's body.

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

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

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.

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

I wear makeup and dress this way because I think it makes me look better. I am not doing it to get people to stare at me. If I wanted to do that I could just put a pot on my head, wear a wedding dress, and run screaming down the street.

When you're younger, you think you're in competition with everyone. You think everyone's success is a threat to you, and this is a thing you grow out of. You get older and you suddenly realize the only person you're in competition with is yourself.

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

I'm not gay, and I'm not a transvestite.

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.

I am thinking of George Michael's family, friends and fans. He was so loved and I hope he knew it because the sadness today is beyond words. Devastating. What a beautiful voice he had and his music will live on as a testament to his talent. I can't believe he is gone. I hope the Buddha will hold him in his arms. NMRK.

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

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.

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.