I try to exist in a world where there is freedom of opinion, where you're allowed to make jokes. I don't want to live in some PC world where no-one's allowed to say anything.

I was unwelcome in the U.S. for four years.

I'd got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.

I'm not responsible enough to have a dog - or a child.

I'm always being inspired .

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

My mother and father were fantastic, very active. I find it difficult to say this, but I'm quite a loving person and I've always been loving to my friends. In the long run, that pays off. I'm very interested in other people, and if you are, they're interested in you.

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

People say things about me all the time and I get over it. I've had some appalling things told about me.

Remember that I was out of the closet at the age of sixteen. My parents knew I was gay; I'd had to tell them.

She's probably in denial that she's a great big ball of insecurity and I'm quite well aware that I am one.

The ultimate goal is to be more satisfied. I really don't believe you get wiser because you get older. It's a choice, perhaps not to take some things so seriously.

Very few people can truly divorce themselves from what they feel emotionally and sexually.

Well there are those who think you can only succeed at someone else's expense.

What's really sad is that a lot of very talented people are being forced to do things that are very embarrassing and I don't intend to be one of them.

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 would rather have a cup of tea than sex.

I don't play big stadium-style dance, but I have discovered, to my delight, that the appetite for real low slung deep house is very much alive.

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.

A difficult crowd will always test your true ability.

Seeing bored-looking fans staring at you while you DJ is about as horrible as it gets.

I've had to write in a different way because I'm not in a bad place and I'm not heartbroken, so there's no one I want revenge on.

I'm a big fan of Yoko, one of those weird people who really love her music, and who argues with people all the time, because people do write her off.

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

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 never been a bad person and always had quite good morals. There's always been a side of me that's been quite proper, but it's got distracted here and there. Now I'm the person I should be.

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

I used to think of George Michael as being mechanical, like a scientist in a white coat, working in a laboratory, creating perfect harmonies, and all the while I was secretly admiring him.

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.

I've never felt as though I didn't belong, I just acted as though I did.

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 know that there are some people who don't like me, and that kind of surprises me more than the people who love me.

I don't really feel part of the pop scene.

Luckily, I'm not one of those people who wants to be young; it's never bothered me.

You get much more done if you go to bed early and get up early.

I'm much more interested in working and getting on with my music.

I always feel that my whole life is representing the LGBT community. It's kind of what I do all the time.

To be here in America so soon after the Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage and at the birth of the Caitlyn phenomena feels so timely. It feels perfect for my universe to collide with Caitlyn's, but on a purely personal level, I just think she is utterly fabulous and brave.

When I was 19 or 20 and doing my thing, I can't sit here and say I had this strong political agenda - I was literally just being myself.

Sly Stone made such a huge contribution to the good feeling in the universe, and I love him as a singer.

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.

I look back now, and most of the drama in my life was self-inflicted. I don't need to make up so much drama now.

If you can write someone off as a bad person, then it's easier, but when someone is also great and noble and generous and kind and funny and contradictory, it gets harder.

You don't walk like other boys. You don't talk like other boys. But at six, you are not thinking about your sexuality.

My coming of age was in the '70s. A lot of people look back on it as a grim decade, but I look back on it as a liberating time.

Ziggy Stardust, the Village People, and punk rock really shaped who I am as a person and as a gay man.

As an outsider, you don't think of Australia as being old-fashioned - it's only when you've been here for a period of time when you realise there are issues.

There's no better time than now to be who you are.

There's a guy in London named Ben Cohen who is doing great things. In a way, we need people like Ben - we need straight guys to come out and say, 'What're you worried about? Get over yourself.' That's what we need! Because no one's listening to us - certainly, no one is listening to me.

When I put out 'Same Thing In Reverse,' I was told categorically that this will never get played in America.