Boy George
I've given up coffee, made diet changes.Collection: Diet
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.Collection: Sad
When you're successful, people have no sympathy. Nobody wants to catch the tears of a millionaire.Collection: Sympathy
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.Collection: Freedom
I had to go off to do my own thing, to get my confidence as a writer, and a performer.
I had an explosion on my vocal chord.
I was sick. I had a polyp on my throat. It would have been foolish for me to go out on the road with the problem I had.
There are people you are madly in love with and thought you could never live without, and suddenly you break up and think, 'What was I thinking?'.
I think life is about growing into yourself and getting to like that person.
I don't know what the switch is from being insane to sane. It could be a number of things, what I eat, drink.
Fans want more; they want you to perform in their living room. That's the nature of the beast.
As for Madonna, I always used to laugh at her running. And now I run! I get why she always ran. I wish I'd run when she did.
In the morning, raw foodists don't normally have breakfast. We have a lot of fluids. So I make all these different drinks which are quite strengthening.
I think what I love most about the raw food thing is it's real alchemy. It's a really interesting science, and I think for a creative person, it's a great way to eat.
Before I got famous, I was like a rake. When I was a teenager, I lived on nervous energy. And I always forgot to eat. It was not something I was obsessed with. And then suddenly I got famous, people started taking me out to fancy joints. And the pounds pile on. So I'm much more conscious now about when I eat. How I eat. What I eat.
There's 'Erewhon', a whole big super store where they do incredible raw vegan food.
I went to prison; therefore, I've been rehabilitated, and now I want to get on with my life. I have paid for what I did, end of story.
I might be being controversial, but I think Seal fancies the pants off Delta, and her pants are tight.
People like my honesty. When I'm sane, I'm very much myself.
I was aware that the things that I did bothered people, but that only spurred me on even more.
I'm a much more successful and happier person sober. And I'm nicer to be around.
The more I dressed up, the more people reacted... the more I wanted to do it.
I've grown up very much living my life very visibly. I've never really hidden who I am.
I get over things really quickly, and I feel like in this business, you have to be like that.
Let's face it: I've got a bit of a reputation.
My audience here in America is so eclectic. It's a real mix of people, which is great. Like what I was doing with Culture Club - world music, multiculturalism - not defining everything in terms of sexuality or color. It was about everyone coming together and being part of something.
I went back to DJ'ing in 1987, and it's been an incredible second career for me. Plus, it's almost a parallel universe. If you don't go to underground clubs, you wouldn't know what I do or who I am. So there's been a whole new audience of people that don't even know I'm that 'Boy George', the one their mother used to like.
I consider myself much more of a blues singer now.
I always judge my happiness by how much I listen to music.
I just eat healthy and try not to eat late at night. And I exercise as well. That's a big change for me; I work out a lot.
I'm much more interested in working and getting on with my music.
I always feel that my whole life is representing the LGBT community. It's kind of what I do all the time.
To be here in America so soon after the Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage and at the birth of the Caitlyn phenomena feels so timely. It feels perfect for my universe to collide with Caitlyn's, but on a purely personal level, I just think she is utterly fabulous and brave.
When I was 19 or 20 and doing my thing, I can't sit here and say I had this strong political agenda - I was literally just being myself.
Sly Stone made such a huge contribution to the good feeling in the universe, and I love him as a singer.
When you're in the world I'm in, sometimes you have to remember that when you see your friends, you need to ask them what they've been doing, and you need to grow up and learn your life isn't necessarily more interesting than other people's.
I look back now, and most of the drama in my life was self-inflicted. I don't need to make up so much drama now.
If you can write someone off as a bad person, then it's easier, but when someone is also great and noble and generous and kind and funny and contradictory, it gets harder.
You don't walk like other boys. You don't talk like other boys. But at six, you are not thinking about your sexuality.
My coming of age was in the '70s. A lot of people look back on it as a grim decade, but I look back on it as a liberating time.
Ziggy Stardust, the Village People, and punk rock really shaped who I am as a person and as a gay man.
As an outsider, you don't think of Australia as being old-fashioned - it's only when you've been here for a period of time when you realise there are issues.
There's a guy in London named Ben Cohen who is doing great things. In a way, we need people like Ben - we need straight guys to come out and say, 'What're you worried about? Get over yourself.' That's what we need! Because no one's listening to us - certainly, no one is listening to me.
When I put out 'Same Thing In Reverse,' I was told categorically that this will never get played in America.
I always think that change is like a daisy chain.
I wanted people not to care about whether you were gay, straight, black, white, transgender, whatever it may be... That being said, there's more work to be done... I still want to change the world, absolutely.
I think there's something really powerful about being yourself.
I look at myself at 19 and think I would never do what I did then now! I was so brazen, so confident, so fearless in a way. And remember, the world was a very aggressive place then.
It's funny that I'm so popular with seven-, eight-, nine-year-olds.
I try to find happiness in almost anything... watching videos about new exercises, like ones you can do on a flight when you clench your buttocks.