We always talked [with Andrew Ridgeley] about when it would happen - we always knew that I would go on to have a solo career.

I think the media is a real demon.

My American gay audience have continued to dance and sing to the music I make in a way that straight Americans haven't. I am grateful to them for that.

Everything was meant to wind people up [in Make It Big ]. I don't know why we had this great pleasure in winding people up, but we really did think they would get the joke. And it backfired on us.

I wouldn't marry until I was ready to have children.

Yeah, I'm going to need a leather jacket for when I'm on my hog and need to go into a controlled slide.

I just feel "One More Try" is better lyrically. "Careless Whisper" was written when I was 17 years old, and I had not really experienced anything that strong in my life, so it was a bit precocious.