Quotes About Leigh Bowery

#1. I was approached by this guy Chris Renshaw, who had read my book and had read Leigh's book. He wanted to incorporate both characters - he probably felt Leigh wasn't famous enough and he realized Leigh [Bowery] and I were associated.

Boy George

#2. Leigh [ Bowery] would make up stories about people committing suicide or going on hunger strikes because they were refused entry at the door.

Boy George

#3. 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.

Boy George

#4. Leigh [ Bowery] would create fake guest lists and put the most ridiculous names on them - Joan Collins, or really naff soap stars who would never grace the door of Taboo.

Boy George

#5. Leigh [Bowery ] obviously loved having me in the club because I would attract media, and he loved and lived for his column inches.

Boy George

#6. Leigh Bowery was actually quoted as saying, "Flesh is my most favorite fabric." I've seen many a freak make a scene and go, but Leigh was a special kind of exhibitionist because he was dedicated and saw it as an art form.

Boy George

#7. For me the most interesting thing about Leigh Bowery was the way he used his body as a style statement. He was a big guy, but, because he was tall and had long legs, he looked in proportion - even sexy - -despite being overweight by conventional -standards.

Boy George

#8. CNN's Rick Sanchez said the Jews run CNN. Ah, so that's who we blame for Rick Sanchez.

Conan O'Brien

#9. To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

#10. Tell them I've gone pig farming in Bolivia.

Leigh Bowery

#11. What Robert was trying to do so intently was, in fact, no more than craft. He did no more than copy my tics and twitches - even to the point of staring at my family portrait, a very personal part of my disguise, for his character research -

Jeff Lindsay

#12. I travel to be replenished with beauty, for travel makes the beauty of this world seem like a Christmas that never ends.

Carew Papritz

#13. All of us, all living things, have the potential to change.

T.A. Barron