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.

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.

50 percent of the people I perform for have come to scream at me and the other 50 percent have come to listen to the music.

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

I'm perfectly happy to admit that insecurity. It doesn't bother me. It's there, just the same as the color of my eyes is there. I'm never going to get rid of it. I'm not going to wake up one morning and really like the way I look, but as long as other people like the way I look, that's fine.

By the time I was in my early teens, we were able to move into a much more middle-class area. I had a comfortable adolescence.