Quotes from 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.

Unless you insult my mother or something, there is not much you could say to me that would really bother me.

There's this illusion that homosexuals have sex and heterosexuals fall in love. That's completely untrue. Everybody wants to be loved.

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

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.

When I was in prison, a lot of my friends blew me away. But Stephen Fry wrote to me. It was very humbling.

The struggle isn't just about being straight or gay or transgender - it's a human struggle. That's always really been my kind of starting point: If you're out there and you're odd, come over to my house.

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.

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.

There's this illusion that homosexuals have sex and heterosexuals fall in love. That's completely untrue. Everybody wants to be loved.

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

We were fighting about nothing important while dreaming of the same things.

That's the strange thing about love. One minute you can have your tongue up someone's arse, and the next you can't even communicate.

I'm Catholic In My Complications And Buddhist In My Aspirations' ~George O'dowd

People that plan interviews are really boring. I just say what I want when it comes into my head.

My dad was very explosive, God rest his soul. He could fly off the handle like no one I've ever known, and I have definitely got that in my personality: that ability to sort of smash the house up and then say, 'Put the kettle on,' to have that kind of attitude of, 'Well, I'm OK now, so everybody else has got to be OK.'

Don't talk about things you don't like. Talk about music that you love, books that you've read. I put a lot of recipes online.

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.

Adele is selling millions of records, and everybody tries to sing like Adele.

I find that most people [in social media] just want me to say "happy birthday" to their mom or wish them good luck with their exams.

I'm much more careful now about who I let into my life, but I don't think you could ever change what you're attracted to. You can make choices if you want to be with those people.

I've had to write in a different way because I'm not in a bad place and I'm not heartbroken, so there's no one I want revenge on.

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.

When I got sober, I really felt like there was something that was missing from my life, Buddhism is something that I practice.