Boy George

A difficult crowd will always test your true ability.

— Boy George

I've got so much to be happy about.

— Boy George

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

— Boy George

You have to eat at a certain time and eat properly.

— Boy George

I can be quite noisy and robust in the morning.

— Boy George

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

— Boy George

I knew style and content went hand in hand.

— Boy George

My God is better than your God

— Boy George

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

— Boy George

Luckily, I'm not one of those people who wants to be young; it's never bothered me.

— Boy George

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

— Boy George

“Not knowing when to shut up was one of my greatest faults.”

— Boy George

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

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

— Boy George

Compliments are very un-British, but when someone pays you one, you should take it.

— Boy George

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

— Boy George

If you listen to the radio, and something beats you into surrender, like 'REO Speedwagon', and you really hate them, there's 'You…

— Boy George

The most significant New York club for me was Paradise Garage, where they played house music. This was around '84 or '85.

— Boy George

I knew that I was different when I was six years old, but it wasn't until I got to about 10 or…

— Boy George

I forgive very easily, and I suppose, in the same way, I expect to be forgiven very easily as well. I grew…

— Boy George

I feel like my career has always been a series of collisions and accidents. Being in the right place at the right…

— Boy George

I try to exist in a world where there is freedom of opinion, where you're allowed to make jokes. I don't want…

— Boy George

Taboo was kind of celebrating trash, the kind of records you secretly loved, like Yes Sir, I Can Boogie, by Baccara [laughs]…

— Boy George

Bands like Culture Club and artists like me, you tend to concentrate on the live arena because that's where you can be…

— Boy George

A lot of people come up to me all the time and say thank you for helping me be who I am.…

— Boy George

I wear makeup and dress this way because I think it makes me look better. I am not doing it to get…

— Boy George

Leigh Bowery created outfits that made him look deformed, which was very brave. I believe this was the main thing that gave…

— Boy George

The 1970s was probably the most exciting decade to be a teenager, from discovering Little Richard at the end of the 1960s…

— Boy George

My dad was very explosive, God rest his soul. He could fly off the handle like no one I've ever known, and…

— Boy George

I wasn't part of the Taboo crowd the same way I was part of the New Romantics. I suppose I was seen…

— 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…

— Boy George

Certainly for me, when punk exploded in the 1970s, it was just great. We had these wonderful clothes to wear. We could…

— Boy George

I DJ'd and sang at Miami Basel 2013.

— Boy George

My dad was quite an extreme man.

— Boy George

I suppose there is a lot of toughness in me.

— Boy George

I also tried to avoid doing obvious dance records.

— Boy George

I was always good at music.

— Boy George

I've given up coffee, made diet changes.

— Boy George

I consider myself much more of a blues singer now.

— Boy George

I don't want to be a figure of disappointment.

— Boy George