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.

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 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.

I always feel that my whole life is representing the LGBT community. It's kind of what I do all the time.

Being in the Boy Scouts, you don't think about whether people are gay or straight. You're busy putting up tents and learning to cut sausages.

She's probably in denial that she's a great big ball of insecurity and I'm quite well aware that I am one.

One door closes and another one opens.