Quotes from Boy George

I was never a wallflower - I put my head on the style chopping block.

I suppose there is a lot of toughness in me.

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

I know that there are some people who don't like me, and that kind of surprises me more than the people who love me.

If you listen to the radio, and something beats you into surrender, like 'REO Speedwagon', and you really hate them, there's 'You Can Go Your Own Way' in your ear all day, and that's what makes a good song.

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

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

My God is better than your God

I was really good friends with Matthew Ashman, the guitarist in Bow Wow Wow. He died, unfortunately. He was one of my best friends during my sort of punk period.

Go home. Let me do my community service.

I'd rather they call me a national treasure than a national waste of time. And yes, it does feel good, but I've had to earn it.

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

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

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

When I was 19 or 20 and doing my thing, I can't sit here and say I had this strong political agenda - I was literally just being myself.

I love American positivity.

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

I knew style and content went hand in hand.

I always think that change is like a daisy chain.

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.

Drugs became an obsession, like Culture Club had been, like religion later became although I'm through with that now.

Warren Street was at the high end of the New Romantic scene. They were mostly college art students and people who knew top designers.

Someone once said a cynic is just a disappointed romantic. That really, really sums me up.

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.