I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.
I'm of the opinion that as a DJ you must always play what you love and ignore what's 'trendy' because true passion always eclipses what's fashionable. Quality is always fashionable.
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.
When you're successful, people have no sympathy. Nobody wants to catch the tears of a millionaire.
I've never shied away from country. 'Karma Chameleon' verges on country. Reggae and country are very closely linked. If you go to Jamaica, you hear a lot of country music. There's a correlation.
There's no better time than now to be who you are.
Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
I know that there are some people who don't like me, and that kind of surprises me more than the people who love me.
The more I dressed up, the more people reacted... the more I wanted to do it.
I always think that change is like a daisy chain.
I think life is about growing into yourself and getting to like that person.
When Culture Club broke up, I hadn't been going out a lot because we'd been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London.
I'd rather they call me a national treasure than a national waste of time. And yes, it does feel good, but I've had to earn it.
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.
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.
My life hasn't always been a disaster, it's just that when it has, it's been a spectacular disaster.
For artists of my caliber, we're not played on the radio, so we don't really get a chance to get involved in that debate at all. We don't get a chance, because this weird kind of ageism exists in pop music. If you're past a certain age, you're not relevant. That's the kind of cliched term.
I'm not responsible enough to have a dog - or a child.
An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening.
There's 'Erewhon', a whole big super store where they do incredible raw vegan food.
