The music should be first, not the ego or the personality or the style.

What I reach for first when I play is sound. Technique maybe, but there is technique in sound.

I like to think of myself as an original. I have my own sound. That's not easy to come by, I worked on it for many years. But I like to think that I sound like Dewey Redman

Maybe not as an idol, but I have influenced some people, including my son Joshua. So that feels good. Wherever I play musicians come to meet me, that is a great compliment to me. I am honored.

You must love when your eyes are closed and love when your eyes are open. Love endlessly.

Before you take that first curious, coerced, spiteful, or vengeful step forward, remember this: it’s a thousand times easier to slip into a muddy pit than it is to climb out of one.

The best to know is to face it, take a next step toward it.

The photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability.

One aspect of politics too little acknowledged is that besides being jolly serious and all that, it is also a hugely enjoyable game for boys.

I think for me one of the big things was realizing that being Boy George is my job. It's what I do.

A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to prove you're a lady.

My wife, Tania, is very big on dogs, so I'm always paying out to animal charities.

Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil.

Realizing that nothing can last, that all is as dreamlike illusion.