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.
— Boy George
I've never shied away from country. 'Karma Chameleon' verges on country. Reggae and country are very closely linked. If you go to Jamaica, you hear a lot of country music. There's a correlation.
If you go back to the '80s, you had a whole plethora of artists, everyone from Madonna and Cyndi Lauper to Prince. God bless Lady Gaga for doing her thing, but she's kind of a lone peacock now. If anything, we have a much more conservative kind of pop world. It's not necessarily about individuality.
I've grown up very much living my life very visibly. I've never really hidden who I am.
I'm a much more successful and happier person sober. And I'm nicer to be around.
I might be being controversial, but I think Seal fancies the pants off Delta, and her pants are tight.
There's 'Erewhon', a whole big super store where they do incredible raw vegan food.
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.
Lots of headless chickens running around - artists with 14 million followers on Twitter, some making millions, none making cultural impact.
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 had an explosion on my vocal chord.
I always say I'm Catholic in my complications and Buddhist in my aspirations.
Even from the age of about 6 years old, I was kind of made to feel different by other kids - you know, I was a quite pretty kid, and I got called 'girl' a lot, and 'woman' and all of that. And school is really not a place to be different.
You have social networking, and you can do things efficiently without the might of a big label.
In the early part of the '70s, we had glam rock, but we also had reggae and ska happening at the same time. I just took all those influences I had as a kid and threw them together, and somehow it works.
People in Scunthorpe don't care what I say. And I'm not camp, either. I'm a geezer. I'm not a raving queer, I've got a bit of character. I just ignore people who shout at me in the street. I just stick my head in the air; I'm not interested.
My dad was quite an extreme man.
I always judge my happiness by how much I listen to music.
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.
Let's face it: I've got a bit of a reputation.
Unless you insult my mother or something, there is not much you could say to me that would really bother me.
I was aware that the things that I did bothered people, but that only spurred me on even more.
In a way, the most political thing you can do is be yourself.
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.
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.
I don't know what the switch is from being insane to sane. It could be a number of things, what I eat, drink.
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.
I had to go off to do my own thing, to get my confidence as a writer, and a performer.
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 a scary place for kids. So I didn't like it, and I didn't want to be there. And it was a great day for me when they threw me out.
I DJ'd and sang at Miami Basel 2013.
If you listen to the radio, and something beats you into surrender, like 'REO Speedwagon', and you really hate them, there's 'You Can Go Your Own Way' in your ear all day, and that's what makes a good song.
People that plan interviews are really boring. I just say what I want when it comes into my head.
I used to tell my mum to leave my dad when I was, like, nine. I loved my father, don't get me wrong. I really loved him, but he wasn't a good dad, and he wasn't a good husband.
I consider myself much more of a blues singer now.
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 get over things really quickly, and I feel like in this business, you have to be like that.
The more I dressed up, the more people reacted... the more I wanted to do it.
People like my honesty. When I'm sane, I'm very much myself.
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 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.
Fans want more; they want you to perform in their living room. That's the nature of the beast.
I think life is about growing into yourself and getting to like that person.
I've given up coffee, made diet changes.
There's always going to be something said that hurts you.
I never really tell lies, and sometimes it has worked against me.
School is not a great place to have feminine features or a big nose, or to wear glasses or the wrong shoes.
America has always been my biggest audience, so I'm putting a lot of faith in America.
I can't even read music. All I know is whether I think it sounds good and if I like what I'm doing.
I knew that I was different when I was six years old, but it wasn't until I got to about 10 or 11 that I realised I was a gay man.
