I've never felt as though I didn't belong, I just acted as though I did.

I'd got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.

Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance.

Adele is selling millions of records, and everybody tries to sing like Adele.

The more I dressed up, the more people reacted... the more I wanted to do it.

I always say I'm Catholic in my complications and Buddhist in my aspirations.

Well there are those who think you can only succeed at someone else's expense.

I'm a much more successful and happier person sober. And I'm nicer to be around.

Luckily, I'm not one of those people who wants to be young; it's never bothered me.

I think being individual in the show business is what gives you life and longevity.

Compliments are very un-British, but when someone pays you one, you should take it.

There's 'Erewhon', a whole big super store where they do incredible raw vegan food.

I had to go off to do my own thing, to get my confidence as a writer, and a performer.

Seeing bored-looking fans staring at you while you DJ is about as horrible as it gets.

I've grown up very much living my life very visibly. I've never really hidden who I am.

The best thing you can do is work on your personality because we're all gonna get ugly.

I just go in my back garden. It's the only place where people don't come and bother you.

I don't get all this Speedo stuff actually, I mean, whatever happened to the feather boa?

Part of me looks at the gay movement now and worries that we're losing our individuality.

Very few people can truly divorce themselves from what they feel emotionally and sexually.

Someone once said a cynic is just a disappointed romantic. That really, really sums me up.

Comparing Madonna with Marilyn Monroe is like comparing Raquel Welch with the back of a bus.

I was aware that the things that I did bothered people, but that only spurred me on even more.

Fans want more; they want you to perform in their living room. That's the nature of the beast.

Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.

You have social networking, and you can do things efficiently without the might of a big label.

People that plan interviews are really boring. I just say what I want when it comes into my head.

When you're successful, people have no sympathy. Nobody wants to catch the tears of a millionaire.

I think for me one of the big things was realizing that being Boy George is my job. It's what I do.

I can't even read music. All I know is whether I think it sounds good and if I like what I'm doing.

My life hasn't always been a disaster, it's just that when it has, it's been a spectacular disaster.

There are lots of things about me that have changed. Some things are a process; some things take time.

Ziggy Stardust, the Village People, and punk rock really shaped who I am as a person and as a gay man.

I might be being controversial, but I think Seal fancies the pants off Delta, and her pants are tight.

My appetite for self-destruction and misery is greatly diminished. I'm not interested in being unhappy.

For me, I've gotten better at that since I've gotten older. I never was good at that when I was younger.

People say things about me all the time and I get over it. I've had some appalling things told about me.

Sly Stone made such a huge contribution to the good feeling in the universe, and I love him as a singer.

The band never actually split up - we just stopped speaking to each other and went our own separate ways.

I always feel that my whole life is representing the LGBT community. It's kind of what I do all the time.

She's probably in denial that she's a great big ball of insecurity and I'm quite well aware that I am one.

When I was in prison, a lot of my friends blew me away. But Stephen Fry wrote to me. It was very humbling.

School is not a great place to have feminine features or a big nose, or to wear glasses or the wrong shoes.

I'm very uncomfortable with the idea of vaginas. They bother me in the way that spiders bother some people.

Unless you insult my mother or something, there is not much you could say to me that would really bother me.

For some strange reason, my gay life didn't get easier when I came out. Quite the opposite happened, really.

When I put out 'Same Thing In Reverse,' I was told categorically that this will never get played in America.

I never thought I'd be doing records a year after I started - I had no idea it would last as long as it did.

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.

I don't know what the switch is from being insane to sane. It could be a number of things, what I eat, drink.

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