No quotes are currently available.

Boy George

singer-songwriter, disc jockey, photographer, record producer, singer, composer, fashion designer, recording artist

1961

George Alan O'Dowd, known professionally as Boy George, is an English musician, songwriter and DJ who rose to fame as the lead singer of the pop band Culture Club. He began his solo career in 1987. Boy George grew up in Eltham and was part of the New Romantic movement which emerged in the late 1970s to early 1980s. His androgynous look and style of fashion was greatly inspired by glam rock pioneers David Bowie and Marc Bolan. He formed Culture Club with Roy Hay, Mikey Craig and Jon Moss in 1981. The band's second album, Colour by Numbers (1983), sold more than 10 million copies worldwide. Their hit singles include "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me", "Time ", "I'll Tumble 4 Ya", "Church of the Poison Mind", "Karma Chameleon", "Victims", "Miss Me Blind", "It's a Miracle", "The War Song", "Move Away" and "I Just Wanna Be Loved".

All Quotes by Boy George

My coming of age was in the '70s. A lot of people look back on it as a grim decade, but I look back on it as a liberating time.

Boy George

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.

Boy George

I've given up coffee, made diet changes.

Boy George

Gay unions, what is that about? I haven't been invited to any ceremonies, and I wouldn't go anyway. The idea that gay people have to mimic what obviously doesn't work for straight people any more ... I think is a bit tragic. I am looking forward to gay divorces.

Boy George

Madonna is "a living, breathing cash register".

Boy George

I was pleased because he is the first American rapper to say something positive about gay people. I met his mum, she's lovely.

Boy George

Hello, I'm Boy George, and you are watching RBTV. Come out of the closet, all you students - we want you!

Boy George

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