Acting
"I've finally realised why actors are mostly insane - because once you start learning your lines you become consumed by the person you are portraying. I keep answering my phone in character. 'Go away, Big Sue. Can't you see I'm busy?"

Bisexuality
"When I want sex, I have to buy it!"

Culture Club
"Culture Club is a living soap opera and at times I have to pinch myself because it is beyond madness."

XXX
"....I must admit that I once tried to sign up to a gay porno site, but it was such a rigmarole. And I then decided that actually, I prefer the real thing. "

Drugs
"Drugs are always a substitute for what you're not getting in life. They're an escape. Drugs are about cutting off."

Web-sex
"Someone who puts their dick on the web could never be my lover!"

  Quote Of The Month
(June 2004)
"I always dress up. There doesn't have to be an occasion. I'm a freak!" 

Eating
"My therapist tells me how to watch how someone eats and to see how they make love. What hope for me? I chuck it down. Boy Gorge, indeed.
Come to my bedroom, be ravished and then
forgotten. "

Violence
"I only ever had one fight at school and that was with a guy coming home on the bus. He punched me, so I took off my wooden platform and battered him with it."

  Fame
"...we all have to go to the toilet."

"U Can Never
B 2 Straight"
(latest solo album) "It's very acoustic and it's very queer. In fact listening to it may turn you homosexual. I think they may have to put a sticker on it,"

    Grammy
"Thank you, America, you've got taste, style and you know a good drag queen when
you see one!"
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Tina Turner
"And [the song] contains the most obscene lyric I have ever heard. You really couldn't imagine Ms Turner even listening to it, let alone singing it. It was on my answerphone for years."

   Homophobia
"We are making the mistake of thinking that we're living in this liberal world. I get a hell of a lot of love from straight people but I get a lot of homophobia from young kids, because when they come face to face with a gay man who isn't ashamed of what he is, they are terrified of him."

Straights
"It takes two of them to make one of us, so I'm very grateful."

 Interviews
"Interviews are a bit like sex; it's much better to actually do it, than to talk about it."

Religion
"Other peoples' religions don't bother me. I have my own set of religious values that I live by. I believe that there is one God and that God is there for everyone, whether you're heterosexual or homosexual, black, white or yellow. God doesn't discriminate."

  Jon Moss
"I was obsessed with Jon. I mean really obsessed. His belt buckle used to give me a hard-on!"

Queerness
"For moi, the human being is a multitude of sexual possibilities and one chooses whether to act on an impulse which is dormant in all of us. "

  Kissing
"Never trust a person with a stiff jaw. One of the most important things for me in a relationship is kissing. If someone doesn't kiss me with everything they have, it's never going to happen. "

Persona
"Being Boy George is easy. Once I've got the gear on, and my hat, and my glad rags and my make-up, I'm fearless. It's my armour. Being just George has been the biggest battle for me."

Outspokenness
"People still have this idea of me that's completely wrong. I never set out to be a pop idol; I never wanted to be that kind of artist. I did The Frank Skinner Show recently, and I deliberately chose to be upfront rather than 'nice', and the reactions I got from gay people in particular were shock and outrage, but I've got no time for these desperate bids for assimilation."

No Regrets
"Regrets are pointless, so all I can do is learn from what has happened. Life is a long corridor. You're walking along thinking everything is hunky-dory, and suddenly a loose floorboard comes up and whacks you in the face."

Make-up
"Beauty is always achievable. God bless the Goddess of slap!"

Leigh Bowery
"I remember being with him in Charing Cross Road when he was dressed in a silver mask, vagina wig and bra, and the traffic started hooting, and he got in the middle of the street and started dancing. The police came to arrest him, but they took one look at him and just told him to go away. I think they were probably scared of him."

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