Explore Quotes by Boy George

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.

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.

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.

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.'

I've given up coffee, made diet changes.

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.

I can be quite noisy and robust in the morning.

I knew style and content went hand in hand.

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

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?'.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

A difficult crowd will always test your true ability.

I suppose there is a lot of toughness in me.

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

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.

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

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