“I was about 16 when punk started to happen… It felt like you had this naive idea that you could change things just by wearing something.”

Everybody isn’t everybody.

Someone once said a cynic is just a disappointed romantic. That really, really sums me up.

I have always idolized eccentric people.

Never a lip is curved with pain that can’t be kissed into smiles again.

If I ever commented on one of his outfits he would snip, “Oh, thank you, Mr. Boy George. I do value your opinion.” And then he would spin and make some ridiculous noise and mince off.

The Greatest Blues Singer in the World Will Never Stop Singing.

I find that most people [in social media] just want me to say “happy birthday” to their mom or wish them good luck with their exams.

You had disco going on behind punk. You had Michael Jackson. You had the Sex Pistols.

Maybe without me, there wouldn’t be Adam Lambert. Without Bowie, there wouldn’t be me. Without Quentin Crisp, there wouldn’t have been Bowie. So everything is part of a big daisy chain.

I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.

The best thing you can do is work on your personality because we’re all gonna get ugly.

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

The problem with being on the road – especially in a hot place like Florida – is that you can begin to think you’re on holiday.

I don’t get all this Speedo stuff actually, I mean, whatever happened to the feather boa?

You find out so many interesting things when you’re not on drugs.

The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in their platform if they thought it would carry the election.