Yet ["One More Try" ] really seemed to connect with people, which is a wonderful thing and a marvelous coincidence.

In the rest of the world we had had two albums that were successful, so those two albums' hits and this new four-single package made up an album called Wham! The Final, which is basically greatest hits. We couldn't have done a greatest hits over here, because we'd only done one hit album.

Things that I was writing for Wham! were a strong indication of what my future album would be like. But most people got so lost in our image and found it pretty repulsive.

The word that pisses me off - "prepubescent."

I'm basically a control freak. It's not because I want to be. I'm not at all into the power play that's involved in it.

We both [me and Andrew Ridgeley ] knew that splitting up was the right thing to do, and there was no animosity between us at all.

I'm not a great collaborator, to tell the truth.