I hate the actual traveling, but I like playing.

I want the people who came to listen to have a good time as well. So it's a matter of playing a control game when all I really want to do is go out there and sing.

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.

I lost my partner [Anselmo Feleppa] to HIV then it took about three years to grieve; then after that I lost my mother. I felt almost like I was cursed.

You couldn't release the single on its own, because no one wanted it.

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.