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

Remember that I was out of the closet at the age of sixteen. My parents knew I was gay; I'd had to tell them.

I'm very uncomfortable with the idea of vaginas. They bother me in the way that spiders bother some people.

For me, I've gotten better at that since I've gotten older. I never was good at that when I was younger.

Warren Street was at the high end of the New Romantic scene. They were mostly college art students and people who knew top designers.

Part of me looks at the gay movement now and worries that we're losing our individuality.

I was about 16 when punk started to happen. It was so exciting. You had a social depression going on in the U.K. There was a sanitation strike. London was really grim, gray. You had Margaret Thatcher coming in. It was a really revolutionary time.