Boy George Quotes

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Boy George

Profession : Musician

Birth : June 14, 1961

Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you can handle, and if you come out the other end with some wisdom, then it's not such a bad thing.

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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.

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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.

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There's no better time than now to be who you are.

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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.

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I'm not in love, but I'm open to persuasion.

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I always think that change is like a daisy chain.

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I've never shied away from country. 'Karma Chameleon' verges on country. Reggae and country are very closely linked. If you go to Jamaica, you hear a lot of country music. There's a correlation.

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

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

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I'm being honest, I say what I think.

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

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I've never been a bad person and always had quite good morals. There's always been a side of me that's been quite proper, but it's got distracted here and there. Now I'm the person I should be.

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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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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.

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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 wanted people not to care about whether you were gay, straight, black, white, transgender, whatever it may be... That being said, there's more work to be done... I still want to change the world, absolutely.

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I don't know what the switch is from being insane to sane. It could be a number of things, what I eat, drink.

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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've given up coffee, made diet changes.

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