Boy George

I think life is about growing into yourself and getting to like that person. ”

I went to prison; therefore, I've been rehabilitated, and now I want to get on with my life. I have paid for what I did, end of story. ”

For some strange reason, my gay life didn't get easier when I came out. Quite the opposite happened, really. ”

When you're in the world I'm in, sometimes you have to remember that when you see your friends, you need to ask them what they've been doing, and you need to grow up and learn your life isn't necessarily more interesting than other people's. ”

My life hasn't always been a disaster, it's just that when it has, it's been a spectacular disaster. ”

I've grown up very much living my life very visibly. I've never really hidden who I am. ”

In the early part of the '70s, we had glam rock, but we also had reggae and ska happening at the same time. I just took all those influences I had as a kid and threw them together, and somehow it works. ”

Before I got famous, I was like a rake. When I was a teenager, I lived on nervous energy. And I always forgot to eat. It was not something I was obsessed with. And then suddenly I got famous, people started taking me out to fancy joints. And the pounds pile on. So I'm much more conscious now about when I eat. How I eat. What I eat. ”

I don't listen to the radio, so I don't really know what's going on in current pop culture. I know about the obvious things, like Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber and Ed Sheeran and Adele, because I hear them. They're everywhere. ”

Bands like Culture Club and artists like me, you tend to concentrate on the live arena because that's where you can be your most authentic. That's where you have the most power. ”