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

I wouldn't marry until I was ready to have children.

I hate the actual traveling, but I like playing.

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.

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

[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.

We always talked [with Andrew Ridgeley] about when it would happen - we always knew that I would go on to have a solo career.