My kids never had the advantages I had. I was born poor.
Jail's like school but you can't leave.
Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
Leigh [Bowery] affected a posh English voice and elongated his vowels, and you never knew if he was being sincere or mocking you. If I ever commented on one of his outfits he would snip, "Oh, thank you, Mr. Boy George. I do value your opinion. " And then he would spin and make some ridiculous noise and mince off.
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.
I think for me one of the big things was realizing that being Boy George is my job. It's what I do.
[Getting older is] experience but it's also changing your mindset.
When you start moving into the internal stuff, you start learning how you don't get your power from your muscles. You open up the energy channels inside your body and you shoot something through them and all of a sudden, you've got many times the power you could get physically, or even if you don't, some other things. To get this power to come from inside you, this chi, this energy from inside you, you have to learn how to completely relax.
A man who is not accountable to anyone is a danger to himself
Love is a contradiction.
An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.