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

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.

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

[Arnold Schwarzenegger] is really good at ['The New Celebrity Apprentice' show]. Totally different energy to our potential president, but he's cool.

Leigh [Bowery] would make up stories about people committing suicide or going on hunger strikes because they were refused entry at the door.

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.

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