Boy George famous quotes

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

#Falling In Love #Sex #Gay

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.
-- Boy George

#Thinking #Competition #Realizing

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

#Years #Two #Lasts

I'm not someone who can sing anything. And my favorite singers aren't people whose voice you would say is amazing. I'm a big Bob Dylan fan, a huge David Bowie fan. None of those people have orthodox, cabaret voices. These are people where what they're singing about is just as important as how they're singing it.
-- Boy George

#Voice #People #Singing

I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.
-- Boy George

#Sex #Tea #Cups Of Tea

I think being individual in the show business is what gives you life and longevity.
-- Boy George

#Thinking #Giving #Individual

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.
-- Boy George

#Drug #Half #World

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.
-- Boy George

#Gay #Who I Am #People

I suppose there is a lot of toughness in me.
-- Boy George

#Toughness

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.
-- Boy George

#Kids #Rivers #People

Whenever there's an interview with me, I might read it, but I don't read the comments because they're so hateful sometimes. When someone writes something nasty, I just think, "If that's your contribution to my day, I really don't need your impoliteness." I'm lucky that people are very cool with me and I get a lot of love. I appreciate that.
-- Boy George

#Writing #Thinking #People

My family knew I was gay when I was 15, long before I got famous. But it's a very different thing coming out to your family and coming out to the universe. That's a big step. Maybe without me, there wouldn't be Adam Lambert. Without Bowie, there wouldn't be me. Without Quentin Crisp, there wouldn't have been Bowie. So everything is part of a big daisy chain.
-- Boy George

#Gay #Long #Steps

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
-- Boy George

#Believe #Goal #Choices

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?
-- Boy George

#Funny #Careers #Dumb

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.
-- Boy George

#People #Being Sad #Really Sad

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

#Heartbroken #Revenge #Writing

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

#Community #Lgbt #Kind

I'm being honest, I say what I think.
-- Boy George

#Thinking #Honest #Being Honest

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

#Long Distance Relationship #Radiance #Separation

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

#Drama #Looks #Appearance

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

#Divorce #People #Feels

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

#Dog #Children #Enough

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

#Boys #People #Records

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

#Mother #Running #Father

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

#Men

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

#Successful #Empty

I was unwelcome in the U.S. for four years.
-- Boy George

#Years #Four

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

#Say Anything #Trying #World

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.
-- Boy George

#House #London #Leisure

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

#Sex #Idols #Pistols

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

#Garden #People #Bother

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

#Insecurity #Balls #Denial

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

#Real #Party #Thinking

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

#I Am What I Am

I don't get all this Speedo stuff actually, I mean, whatever happened to the feather boa?
-- Boy George

#Mean #Stuff #Speedos

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.
-- Boy George

#Mother #Nice #Book

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

#Interesting #Drug #Interesting Things

I'm not gay, and I'm not a transvestite.
-- Boy George

#Gay #Transvestites

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

#People #Over It #Get Over

I'm always being inspired .
-- Boy George

#Inspired

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

#Gay #Parent #Age

My God is better than your God
-- Boy George

Madonna is a living, breathing cash register.
-- Boy George

#Breathing #Cash #Register

Gay unions, what is that about? I haven't been invited to any ceremonies, and I wouldn't go anyway. The idea that gay people have to mimic what obviously doesn't work for straight people any more... I think is a bit tragic. I am looking forward to gay divorces.
-- Boy George

#Divorce #Gay #Thinking

I also tried to avoid doing obvious dance records.
-- Boy George

#Records #Obvious

I knew style and content went hand in hand.
-- Boy George

#Hands #Style

A difficult crowd will always test your true ability.
-- Boy George

#Crowds #Tests #Difficult

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

#Gay #Worry #Individuality

The most political thing you can do is be yourself
-- Boy George

#Being Yourself #Political

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

#Ideas #People #Way

Jail's like school but you can't leave.
-- Boy George

#School #Jail