As I became George professionally and everyone called me George, Yog became the name that people who knew me from before started to use. It became more valuable to me.

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

[My father] was not a musical man.

At a certain age I just stopped arguing. I realized that there was no way [my father] could see, because for him to approve of what I was doing, he would have to have some belief in me as a musician.

Freedom. I won't let you down.

Both of us knew the band had run its course. We were both unhappy doing it, but I think the way Andrew [Ridgeley] was being treated as the less important half of the duo had finally taken its toll on him.

I suppose maybe if I had been an attractive child, I would have had less inclination to push my physical presence.