Only time will set you free, just like me

At a certain age I just stopped arguing. I realized that there was no way [my father] could see, because for him to approve of what I was doing, he would have to have some belief in me as a musician.

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

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

The years between leaving school and actually becoming an adult are very important years. You make a lot of choices as to the type of life you want to lead and what type of person you want to be. There were so many people who had opinions of me, a lot of them very unflattering, that it was hard to make up my mind about who I was supposed to be.

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.

I think marriage is a good thing for children, because it gives them a feeling of security.