I want to make a pop album - something more upbeat than my stuff was in the '90s.

This stuff [marijuana] keeps me sane and happy. I'd say it's a great drug - but obviously it's not very healthy.

When Andrew [Ridgeley] first met my family, he heard my mom calling me "Yorgos." He just abbreviated it to Yog, and unfortunately it stuck. I hated it is a teenager. It was not the most glamorous-sounding name in the world.

It's really difficult trying to find the line where you don't piss anybody off.

I'm not anti-American. I've lived with Kenny, a Texan, for six years.

It does bother me when they [tabloids] drag friends of mine into it and talk about them and lie about them. My friends have no part in it; they're not celebrities, so why should they have to accept the downside of celebrity? That worries me for a bit.

50 percent of the people I perform for have come to scream at me and the other 50 percent have come to listen to the music.