I knew style and content went hand in hand.
I knew that I was different when I was six years old, but it wasn't until I got to about 10 or 11 that I realised I was a gay man.
For some strange reason, my gay life didn't get easier when I came out. Quite the opposite happened, really.
Part of me looks at the gay movement now and worries that we're losing our individuality.
Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
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.
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.
Well there are those who think you can only succeed at someone else's expense.
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.
You're in a band with someone, it doesn't necessarily mean you're going to agree with everything they think or do.
Sly Stone made such a huge contribution to the good feeling in the universe, and I love him as a singer.
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.
School is a scary place for kids. So I didn't like it, and I didn't want to be there. And it was a great day for me when they threw me out.
Very few people can truly divorce themselves from what they feel emotionally and sexually.
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.
When I put out 'Same Thing In Reverse,' I was told categorically that this will never get played in America.
I suppose there is a lot of toughness in me.
I always judge my happiness by how much I listen to music.
People in Scunthorpe don't care what I say. And I'm not camp, either. I'm a geezer. I'm not a raving queer, I've got a bit of character. I just ignore people who shout at me in the street. I just stick my head in the air; I'm not interested.
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.
My coming of age was in the '70s. A lot of people look back on it as a grim decade, but I look back on it as a liberating time.
I think life is about growing into yourself and getting to like that person.
School is not a great place to have feminine features or a big nose, or to wear glasses or the wrong shoes.
I don't really feel part of the pop scene.
My appetite for self-destruction and misery is greatly diminished. I'm not interested in being unhappy.
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.
I went to prison; therefore, I've been rehabilitated, and now I want to get on with my life. I have paid for what I did, end of story.
I had an explosion on my vocal chord.
As an outsider, you don't think of Australia as being old-fashioned - it's only when you've been here for a period of time when you realise there are issues.
Let's face it: I've got a bit of a reputation.
I look at myself at 19 and think I would never do what I did then now! I was so brazen, so confident, so fearless in a way. And remember, the world was a very aggressive place then.
I'm much more interested in working and getting on with my music.
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.
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.
You get much more done if you go to bed early and get up early.