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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening.

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

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.