Quotes from Boy George

I'm a much more successful and happier person sober. And I'm nicer to be around.

I've sold a lot of records. I've sold, like, 150 million records, and I don't think I've had that many good reviews. It's one of those things that when you're really successful, critics hate you just because you're successful.

There are lots of things about me that have changed. Some things are a process; some things take time.

I DJ'd and sang at Miami Basel 2013.

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.

If you have to be in a soap opera, try not to get the worst role.

I think that's the fascinating thing about the '70s is that it turns out it was quite a dark decade. But, like, who knew?

For someone like me, who has grown up with Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, it's hard not to invest a lot of myself in what I do.

The more I dressed up, the more people reacted... the more I wanted to do it.

Lots of headless chickens running around - artists with 14 million followers on Twitter, some making millions, none making cultural impact.

In fact, he [George Michael] was loitering in public loos like some pre-war homosexual. It's one thing to keep quiet. It's another to pretend you're someone you're not.

My life hasn't always been a disaster, it's just that when it has, it's been a spectacular disaster.

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.

I don't know whether when I was 20 years old or 25 years old if somebody would have come along with incredible wisdom whether I would have really listened.

You have social networking, and you can do things efficiently without the might of a big label.

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 never thought I'd be doing records a year after I started - I had no idea it would last as long as it did.

My appetite for self-destruction and misery is greatly diminished. I'm not interested in being unhappy.

Seeing bored-looking fans staring at you while you DJ is about as horrible as it gets.

If you can write someone off as a bad person, then it's easier, but when someone is also great and noble and generous and kind and funny and contradictory, it gets harder.

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 can be quite noisy and robust in the morning.

I was unwelcome in the U.S. for four years.

The best thing you can do is work on your personality because we're all gonna get ugly.