All we have to see is that I don't belong to you, and you don't belong to me.

Freedom. I will not give you up.

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

I'm never going to dance again. Guilty feet have got no rhythm.

I was supposed to be a real Thatcherite. Just by dint of being a first-generation immigrant and having not had money, and then suddenly having it - and getting on planes and going to Ibiza and sitting around in thongs. But actually nothing I was writing or doing was even vaguely Thatcherite.

The main downside was that it [fame] happened so quickly and I didn't have time to establish what kind of person I wanted to be.

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