Boy George Quotes

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Boy George

Profession : Musician

Birth : June 14, 1961

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

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 your most authentic. That's where you have the most power.

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

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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?'.

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

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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.

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For some strange reason, my gay life didn't get easier when I came out. Quite the opposite happened, really.

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A difficult crowd will always test your true ability.

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My dad was quite an extreme man.

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I always feel that my whole life is representing the LGBT community. It's kind of what I do all the time.

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Very few people can truly divorce themselves from what they feel emotionally and sexually.

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

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The ultimate goal is to be more satisfied. I really don't believe you get wiser because you get older. It's a choice, perhaps not to take some things so seriously.

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There's a guy in London named Ben Cohen who is doing great things. In a way, we need people like Ben - we need straight guys to come out and say, 'What're you worried about? Get over yourself.' That's what we need! Because no one's listening to us - certainly, no one is listening to me.

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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.

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Ziggy Stardust, the Village People, and punk rock really shaped who I am as a person and as a gay man.

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I knew that I was different when I was six years old, but it wasn't until I got to about 10 or 11 that I realised I was a gay man.

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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.

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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.

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I suppose there is a lot of toughness in me.

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