Don't talk about things you don't like. Talk about music that you love, books that you've read. I put a lot of recipes online.

I wasn't part of the Taboo crowd the same way I was part of the New Romantics. I suppose I was seen more as an elder statesman because I had been around the London club scene for so many years. To the Taboo crowd I was really seen as a pop star, someone famous.

You get the odd person [in social media] that will write something nasty and the trick is not to engage with them on any level.

Leigh [Bowery] affected a posh English voice and elongated his vowels, and you never knew if he was being sincere or mocking you. If I ever commented on one of his outfits he would snip, "Oh, thank you, Mr. Boy George. I do value your opinion." And then he would spin and make some ridiculous noise and mince off.

I felt that making records in a traditional way - putting them out in the same way, wasting loads of money - was just a pointless exercise.

I like the big bombastic singers, but I'm also very drawn to what I call character singers. They're people who obviously aren't very huge singers, but they've got this ability to tell a story and touch you emotionally without really using any kind of histrionics or special effects.

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.