Boy George

“Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you can handle, and if you come out the other end with some wisdom, then it's not such a bad thing.”

“I've sold a lot of records. I've sold, like, 150 million records, and I don't think I've had that many good reviews. It's one of those things that when you're really successful, critics hate you just because you're successful.”

“For someone like me, who has grown up with Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, it's hard not to invest a lot of myself in what I do.”

“I don't want to be a figure of disappointment.”

“Compliments are very un-British, but when someone pays you one, you should take it.”

“I can't even read music. All I know is whether I think it sounds good and if I like what I'm doing.”

“Even from the age of about 6 years old, I was kind of made to feel different by other kids - you know, I was a quite pretty kid, and I got called 'girl' a lot, and 'woman' and all of that. And school is really not a place to be different.”

“School is a scary place for kids. So I didn't like it, and I didn't want to be there. And it was a great day for me when they threw me out.”

“If you listen to the radio, and something beats you into surrender, like 'REO Speedwagon', and you really hate them, there's 'You Can Go Your Own Way' in your ear all day, and that's what makes a good song.”

“People like my honesty. When I'm sane, I'm very much myself.”

“I didn't think anyone was going to buy 'Do You Really Wanna Hurt Me?' It was really personal, not a hit record, I thought. I wanted us to sound completely different. Shows how much I knew.”

“Lots of headless chickens running around - artists with 14 million followers on Twitter, some making millions, none making cultural impact.”

“I DJ'd and sang at Miami Basel 2013.”

“I'm being honest, I say what I think.”

“A lot of what I've been learning in the last two years is due to therapy - about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven't worked. It isn't anything to do with anybody else; it's to do with me.”

“I was never a wallflower - I put my head on the style chopping block.”

“I never thought I'd be doing records a year after I started - I had no idea it would last as long as it did.”

“I was aware that the things that I did bothered people, but that only spurred me on even more.”

“On the street, on the train - I pull my hat down, and nobody knows it's me. I always wanted the kind of fame that came with an off button.”

“There are people you are madly in love with and thought you could never live without, and suddenly you break up and think, 'What was I thinking?'.”