Boy George Quotes

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

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• I also tried to avoid doing obvious dance records.

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• A lot of what I’ve been learning in the last two years is due to therapy – about my s*xuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven’t worked. It isn’t anything to do with anybody else; it’s to do with me.

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• I knew style and content went hand in hand.

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• 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.

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• I just go in my back garden. It’s the only place where people don’t come and bother you.

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• 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.

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• I can do anything. In GQ, I appeared as a man.

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• 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.

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• I suppose there is a lot of toughness in me.

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• 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.

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• I would rather have a cup of tea than s*x.

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• I’d got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.

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• I’m always being inspired.

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• I’m not responsible enough to have a dog – or a child.

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• 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.

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• Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.

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• 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.

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• People say things about me all the time and I get over it. I’ve had some appalling things told about me.

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• She’s probably in denial that she’s a great big ball of insecurity and I’m quite well aware that I am one.

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Boy George (28)

Birth:	14th June, 1961
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Singer

About

Boy George was born in Bexley, Kent, England. He is a British singer-songwriter, who was part of the English New Romantic movement which emerged in the late 1970s to the early 1980s. His music is often classified as blue-eyed soul, which is influenced by rhythm and blues and reggae. His 1990s and 2000s-era solo music has glam influences, such as David Bowie and Iggy Pop. During the 1980s, Boy George was the lead singer of the Grammy and Brit Award winning pop band Culture Club where he became known for his soulful voice and androgynous appearance. He also founded and was lead singer of Jesus Loves You during the period 1989–1992.

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