You get much more done if you go to bed early and get up early.
— Boy George
I know that there are some people who don't like me, and that kind of surprises me more than the people who love me.
I didn't think anyone was going to buy 'Do You Really Wanna Hurt Me?' It was really personal, not a hit record, I thought. I wanted us to sound completely different. Shows how much I knew.
I've never been a bad person and always had quite good morals. There's always been a side of me that's been quite proper, but it's got distracted here and there. Now I'm the person I should be.
I'm a big fan of Yoko, one of those weird people who really love her music, and who argues with people all the time, because people do write her off.
A difficult crowd will always test your true ability.
I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.
Well there are those who think you can only succeed at someone else's expense.
She's probably in denial that she's a great big ball of insecurity and I'm quite well aware that I am one.
Part of me looks at the gay movement now and worries that we're losing our individuality.
I'm always being inspired .
I was unwelcome in the U.S. for four years.
I suppose there is a lot of toughness in me.
I just go in my back garden. It's the only place where people don't come and bother you.
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.
An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening.
Luckily, I'm not one of those people who wants to be young; it's never bothered me.
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.
I used to think of George Michael as being mechanical, like a scientist in a white coat, working in a laboratory, creating perfect harmonies, and all the while I was secretly admiring him.
Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you can handle, and if you come out the other end with some wisdom, then it's not such a bad thing.
I've had to write in a different way because I'm not in a bad place and I'm not heartbroken, so there's no one I want revenge on.
I'm of the opinion that as a DJ you must always play what you love and ignore what's 'trendy' because true passion always eclipses what's fashionable. Quality is always fashionable.
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.
Very few people can truly divorce themselves from what they feel emotionally and sexually.
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.
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.
I'm not responsible enough to have a dog - or a child.
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 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 also tried to avoid doing obvious dance records.
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.
I can do anything. In GQ, I appeared as a man.
I don't really feel part of the pop scene.
I've never felt as though I didn't belong, I just acted as though I did.
I don't want to be a figure of disappointment.
My life hasn't always been a disaster, it's just that when it has, it's been a spectacular disaster.
Seeing bored-looking fans staring at you while you DJ is about as horrible as it gets.
I don't play big stadium-style dance, but I have discovered, to my delight, that the appetite for real low slung deep house is very much alive.
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.
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.
People say things about me all the time and I get over it. I've had some appalling things told about me.
I'm being honest, I say what I think.
I'd got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.
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 knew style and content went hand in hand.
Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance.
Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
