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.

Playing with Queen was the biggest moment of my career. It was like living a childhood fantasy.

I have definitely reached the same level as Madonna in terms of sales. I'm really pleased about that.

I spent years growing up being told what my sexuality was.

The years between leaving school and actually becoming an adult are very important years. You make a lot of choices as to the type of life you want to lead and what type of person you want to be. There were so many people who had opinions of me, a lot of them very unflattering, that it was hard to make up my mind about who I was supposed to be.

People, you can never change the way they feel. Better let them do what they will. For they will, if you let them, steal your heart.

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