I think for me one of the big things was realizing that being Boy George is my job. It's what I do.

I try to exist in a world where there is freedom of opinion, where you're allowed to make jokes. I don't want to live in some PC world where no-one's allowed to say anything.

On Madonna: She's a gay man trapped in a woman's body.

I think we grow into ourselves. And unfortunately we do it in the spotlight, so when we make mistakes, everybody knows about it.

When I first went to New York, I didn't really go out to clubs. It was the height of Culture Club so I didn't really have a social life. It was only after I had been to New York a few times that I started going out.

Someone once said a cynic is just a disappointed romantic. That really, really sums me up.

[Getting older is] experience but it's also changing your mindset.