I had surprisingly little money when Wham! ended. You'd be very surprised how little, really, because you don't realize how much money it takes to maintain a band.

We [with Andrew Ridgeley] didn't expect people to take it seriously. But naturally they did, and they thought we were a couple of wankers.

Basically I see that song as a bunch of images which I threw together to represent the fact that I was seeing one girl and then I started seeing another, and it was just the guilt in between those two periods. The ballads I've written since have been about things that really hurt me.

The Wham! thing was, as I said, very confusing, and much of our image was totally fake.

I also think I could probably repeat the commercial success; whether I want to or not is a different matter. I think there is still better work inside me.

People have speculated about my sexuality for years and years. They are obviously interested in my sex life. Fine. Let them speculate. I'm not going to put them right one way or the other.

I have two sisters. My father is Greek and comes from a family of seven. My mother is English and comes from a family of five.