Boy George
Boy George
George Alan O'Dowd, known professionally as Boy George, is an English singer, songwriter, DJ, fashion designer and photographer. He is the lead singer of the Grammy and Brit Award-winning pop band Culture Club. At the height of the band's fame, during the 1980s, they recorded global hit songs such as "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me", "Time" and "Karma Chameleon" and George was known for his soulful voice and androgynous appearance. He was part of the English New Romantic...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth14 June 1961
CityLondon, England
The most political thing you can do is be yourself
Most psychiatrists or analysts are a waste of time
I think that might have been you, Chris.
An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening.
I used to think of George Michael as being mechanical, like a scientist in a white coat, working in a laboratory, creating perfect harmonies, and all the while I was secretly admiring him.
There's this illusion that homosexuals have sex and heterosexuals fall in love. That's completely untrue. Everybody wants to be loved.
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.
I am what I am. There's nothing I can do about it.
I'm very uncomfortable with the idea of vaginas. They bother me in the way that spiders bother some people.
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.
I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.
Drugs became an obsession, like Culture Club had been, like religion later became although I'm through with that now.
She's probably in denial that she's a great big ball of insecurity and I'm quite well aware that I am one.
I suppose there is a lot of toughness in me.