[Music From the Edge of Heaven] wasn't really an album at all. The band had made the decision to release an LP and then split up. We wanted to go out with a bang in Britain and the rest of the world by having a single that was four songs, not just one song. But we couldn't do that over here because we couldn't release a single without an album.

I never had a moral problem with being gay.

I suppose romantically there are fantasies that can still be realized. But not professionally.

I don't really think that there is anyone in the modern pop business who I feel I want to spar with.

When someone is always going to be there for you. I meet people like that all the time, but I have this unfortunate attraction to people I think I have to fight to become friends with.

I think the media is a real demon.

We [with Andrew Ridgeley] were getting so much attention and achieving such success. It never really bothered me.