If we wait for the U.S. to do something, we will be waiting for a very long time. It's Europe, it's Australia, it's the other developed and middle developing countries that have got to do the job.
Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt.
Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.
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.
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.
People say things about me all the time and I get over it. I've had some appalling things told about me.
A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
I believe in past lives but I know nothing about mine and I don't want to know. I live in the present, taking one day at a time.
I don't understand why James Bond has to be a man all the time. When Pierce Brosnan retires, why not one of us?
I also think it was important for me and Freddie to be able to have a lot of time to share our lives at the beginning of our marriage rather than my coming home at 9 or 10 at night from the set. Things have really worked out for the best for both of us.
I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined.
I do think I feel it but you don't think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but you don't think you are anything. You feel the life you have lived. I feel that. It's been a long fifty years.
Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
And I realized, when I'd come in to the meetings with these corrugated metal and chain link stuff, and people would just look at me like I'd just landed from Mars. But I couldn't do anything else. That was my response to the people and the time.
I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.