A lot of people felt I was getting work because I was Boy George. My response at the time was that there's a lot of DJs making records, they're not all making good records, but they have the right to do that.
A lot of what I've been learning in the last two years is due to therapy - about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven't worked. It isn't anything to do with anybody else; it's to do with me.
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening.
Because the Culture Club thing had become very hard work, and I'd forgotten that you could actually have a laugh in the studio.
Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance.
Being the kind of person I am, though, I preferred it when it was more scandalous.
Drugs became an obsession, like Culture Club had been, like religion later became although I'm through with that now.
I also tried to avoid doing obvious dance records.
I can do anything. In GQ, I appeared as a man.
I just go in my back garden. It's the only place where people don't come and bother you.
I knew style and content went hand in hand.
I started going to Madame Louise's, the lesbian club where all the punk bands used to go - the Sex Pistols, the Clash. I remember seeing Billy Idol walk in there; he was gorgeous.
I suppose there is a lot of toughness in me.
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 try to exist in a world where there is freedom of opinion, where you're allowed to make jokes. I don't want to live in some PC world where no-one's allowed to say anything.
I was unwelcome in the U.S. for four years.
I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.
I'd got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.
I'm always being inspired .
I'm being honest, I say what I think.
I'm not responsible enough to have a dog - or a child.
I'm very gregarious by nature, and to be trapped by fame was terrible. I was looking for something from outside to fill me up.
In writing the autobiography, I can really chuckle when I look at the songs. I was acting out the part. I saw myself as a victim.
My mother and father were fantastic, very active. I find it difficult to say this, but I'm quite a loving person and I've always been loving to my friends. In the long run, that pays off. I'm very interested in other people, and if you are, they're interested in you.
Part of me looks at the gay movement now and worries that we're losing our individuality.
People say things about me all the time and I get over it. I've had some appalling things told about me.
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.
Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
She's probably in denial that she's a great big ball of insecurity and I'm quite well aware that I am one.
The ultimate goal is to be more satisfied. I really don't believe you get wiser because you get older. It's a choice, perhaps not to take some things so seriously.
Very few people can truly divorce themselves from what they feel emotionally and sexually.
Well there are those who think you can only succeed at someone else's expense.
What's really sad is that a lot of very talented people are being forced to do things that are very embarrassing and I don't intend to be one of them.
When Culture Club broke up, I hadn't been going out a lot because we'd been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London.
You get a lot of that pitying, aggravating attitude from some people who think they are so elevated, and that, I think, is very much the Madonna style. I made a joke the other day that if Madonna doesn't like what I say about her she can always rise above it - she's very spiritual.
He is a vegetarian.
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