Top 70 Boy George Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “My God is better than your God.”

— Boy George

2. “I wear makeup and dress this way because I think it makes me look better. I am not doing it to get people to stare at me. If I wanted to do that I could just put a pot on my head, wear a wedding dress, and run screaming down the street.”

— Boy George

3. “When you’re younger, you think you’re in competition with everyone. You think everyone’s success is a threat to you, and this is a thing you grow out of. You get older and you suddenly realize the only person you’re in competition with is yourself.”

— Boy George

4. “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.”

— Boy George

5. “I am what I am. There’s nothing I can do about it.”

— Boy George

6. “Karma chameleon: we come and go, we come and go...”

— Boy George

7. “Comparing Madonna with Marilyn Monroe is like comparing Raquel Welch with the back of a bus.”

— Boy George

8. “The most political thing you can do is be yourself.”

— Boy George

9. “Madonna is a living, breathing cash register.”

— Boy George

10. “A difficult crowd will always test your true ability.”

— Boy George

11. “I’m always being inspired .”

— Boy George

12. “Every freak has a mother. When I met Marilyn Manson I was struck by how nice he was. People are rarely as weird as you anticipate. Except for Courtney Love-who reminded me of that mad snake in The Jungle Book.”

— Boy George

13. “I wasn’t part of the Taboo crowd the same way I was part of the New Romantics. I suppose I was seen more as an elder statesman because I had been around the London club scene for so many years. To the Taboo crowd I was really seen as a pop star, someone famous.”

— Boy George

14. “Voting for New Labour is like helping an old lady across the road while screaming ‘Get a move on!’ Even the Tories, who you could once rely on to be completely heartless are pretending to care.”

— Boy George

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

— Boy George

16. “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.”

— Boy George

17. “Leigh Bowery created outfits that made him look deformed, which was very brave. I believe this was the main thing that gave Leigh his edge. His designs were often breath-taking, but it was the way he used his body that was so utterly new and refreshing.”

— Boy George

18. “Leigh Bowery was actually quoted as saying, “Flesh is my most favorite fabric.” I’ve seen many a freak make a scene and go, but Leigh was a special kind of exhibitionist because he was dedicated and saw it as an art form.”

— Boy George

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

— Boy George

20. “And being gay isn’t so easy, either I’ve always said that if anyone ever thought I was straight they must need glasses – but when I finally came out and said, “Yes, I do sleep with men and I’m gay,” yeah, I lost record sales. There’s no question – big, big time.”

— Boy George

21. “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.”

— Boy George

22. “For me the most interesting thing about Leigh Bowery was the way he used his body as a style statement. He was a big guy, but, because he was tall and had long legs, he looked in proportion – even sexy – -despite being overweight by conventional -standards.”

— Boy George

23. “A lot of Donna Summer and things that maybe weren’t trendy anymore or weren’t hip in gay clubs but you’d hear them at Taboo.”

— Boy George

24. “On Madonna: She’s a gay man trapped in a woman’s body.”

— Boy George

25. “I’m not gay, and I’m not a transvestite.”

— Boy George

26. “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.”

— Boy George

27. “The band never actually split up – we just stopped speaking to each other and went our own separate ways.”

— Boy George

28. “The best thing you can do is work on your personality because we’re all gonna get ugly.”

— Boy George

29. “I’m not responsible enough to have a dog – or a child.”

— Boy George

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

— Boy George

31. “You find out so many interesting things when you’re not on drugs.”

— Boy George

32. “I suppose all of those New Romantic clubs were quite up their own asses in a way. Well, Taboo was up its own ass in a different way, but not in terms of rules.”

— Boy George

33. “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.”

— Boy George

34. “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.”

— Boy George

35. “I think drugs played a big role in the Taboo scene. People were taking copious amounts of ecstasy, which had filtered over from New York, and at a certain point you were more likely to spend most of the night in the toilets at the club.”

— Boy George

36. “I’d got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.”

— Boy George

37. “I’m very uncomfortable with the idea of vaginas. They bother me in the way that spiders bother some people.”

— Boy George

38. “Jail’s like school but you can’t leave.”

— Boy George

39. “After half an hour the drug hit me like a sensuous tidal wave. I turned into a tactile temptress and wanted to stroke the whole world. It gave me untold confidence.”

— Boy George

40. “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

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

— Boy George

42. “I’m being honest, I say what I think.”

— Boy George

43. “In writing the autobiography, I can really chuckle when I look at the songs. I was acting out the part. I saw myself as a victim.”

— Boy George

44. “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.”

— Boy George

45. “The Taboo crowd was certainly less precious. They were happy to end up in a pile of vomit and booze at the end of the night. It was antifashion, in a sense. They were just as obsessive as the New -Romantics but they acted like they didn’t care.”

— Boy George

46. “I knew style and content went hand in hand.”

— Boy George

47. “When I first went to New York, I didn’t really go out to clubs. It was the height of Culture Club so I didn’t really have a social life. It was only after I had been to New York a few times that I started going out.”

— Boy George

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

— Boy George

49. “Go home. Let me do my community service.”

— Boy George

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

— Boy George