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 truly believed that tonight would never happen, that I would never sing these songs to you again. But then I'm a fool, which you've probably worked out by now.

It was like I had a curse on me. I couldn't believe how much God was piling on. There was so much death around me.

People run on and off the stage, but usually they're removed before they get to me. It's not really frightening. There's always the possibility that someone's going to take a potshot at you; you take that risk when you perform in front of thousands of people.

I want the people who came to listen to have a good time as well. So it's a matter of playing a control game when all I really want to do is go out there and sing.

I think I've gotten everything I want out of the last years, and I still feel like I have a lot of options open to me.

I just hope that I'll stay around musically for as long as I can. I love to think that I will still be satisfying myself and other people as a musician until the day I die.