Quotes from Boy George

I'm not responsible enough to have a dog - or a child.

When I put out 'Same Thing In Reverse,' I was told categorically that this will never get played in America.

I had an explosion on my vocal chord.

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.

You don't walk like other boys. You don't talk like other boys. But at six, you are not thinking about your sexuality.

I've got so much to be happy about.

In a way, the most political thing you can do is be yourself.

You get much more done if you go to bed early and get up early.

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

I'm being honest, I say what I think.

I've never felt as though I didn't belong, I just acted as though I did.

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.

Compliments are very un-British, but when someone pays you one, you should take it.

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.

At 16, I walked around knowing I'd get chased and attacked for dressing a certain way - I felt I had an undeniable right to be who I wanted to be. My father said to hit them back, but I was never much good at that. So I developed a big mouth instead of a quick right hook.

There's no better time than now to be who you are.

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.

I consider myself much more of a blues singer now.

Luckily, I'm not one of those people who wants to be young; it's never bothered me.

I was aware that the things that I did bothered people, but that only spurred me on even more.

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?'.

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'm not in love, but I'm open to persuasion.

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.