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
I think being individual in the show business is what gives you life and longevity.
Part of me looks at the gay movement now and worries that we're losing our individuality.
As a kid, I would've loved to get a tweet from David Bowie or Joan Rivers or Tom Cruise. It's great that you can communicate with people and it's instant.
I'm not someone who can sing anything. And my favorite singers aren't people whose voice you would say is amazing. I'm a big Bob Dylan fan, a huge David Bowie fan. None of those people have orthodox, cabaret voices. These are people where what they're singing about is just as important as how they're singing it.
Whenever there's an interview with me, I might read it, but I don't read the comments because they're so hateful sometimes. When someone writes something nasty, I just think, "If that's your contribution to my day, I really don't need your impoliteness." I'm lucky that people are very cool with me and I get a lot of love. I appreciate that.
People say things about me all the time and I get over it. I've had some appalling things told about me.
A difficult crowd will always test your true ability.
I think people could be a bit friendlier. The only real contact you have with people is when they're annoyed if you've had a party - you know, it's been a bit too noisy for them or something.
I don't get all this Speedo stuff actually, I mean, whatever happened to the feather boa?
I was unwelcome in the U.S. for four years.
I'd got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.
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.
You find out so many interesting things when you're not on drugs.
I can do anything. In GQ, I appeared as a man.