My family knew I was gay when I was 15, long before I got famous. But it's a very different thing coming out to your family and coming out to the universe. That's a big step. Maybe without me, there wouldn't be Adam Lambert. Without Bowie, there wouldn't be me. Without Quentin Crisp, there wouldn't have been Bowie. So everything is part of a big daisy chain.

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

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.

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.

You have to eat at a certain time and eat properly.

Drugs became an obsession, like Culture Club had been, like religion later became although I'm through with that now.

The band never actually split up - we just stopped speaking to each other and went our own separate ways.