The Taboo crowd was certainly less precious. They were happy to end up in a pile of vomit and booze at the end of the night. It was antifashion, in a sense. They were just as obsessive as the New -Romantics but they acted like they didn't care.

I suppose there is a lot of toughness in me.

Karma chameleon: we come and go, we come and go.

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

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.

When I go onstage, I'm going to work ...I feel like my performance is about an emotional connection. I want to connect with people, whether it's like a romantic song or a happy song.

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