Explore Quotes by Boy George

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.