The thing that's weird is that we thought it was funny. We expected people to get the joke - that we [with Andrew Ridgeley] were two guys really making asses of ourselves.

We had to create an album where there wasn't one. I never listen to that album [ Music From the Edge of Heaven] because it wasn't an album.

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

I don't go for safe options. Romantically, I go for people who are a pain in the ass.

I was at Live Aid the original, looking like Rolf Harris for some reason. I had a really long beard that day for some reason.

I've been approached many times by many different people, and most people want to do something that I write and produce, and I'm just not into that.

We [with Andrew Ridgeley] didn't expect people to take it seriously. But naturally they did, and they thought we were a couple of wankers.