[Wham!] totally changed my life. It would be very difficult to know how it changed me as a person; you'd have to ask other people that.

I left school at 17 and was a star by the time I was 18 - in certain parts of the world anyway.

There's not another drug in life that I'm glad I took but grass.

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.

I don't go for safe options. Romantically, I go for people who are a pain in the ass.

I truly believed that tonight would never happen, that I would never sing these songs to you again. But then I'm a fool, which you've probably worked out by now.

I think part of it has got to be compensation, yes, for the fact that when I was a kid, I wasn't particularly attractive. But at the same time I don't remember ever thinking, Oh, my God, I'm such a mess; I'm the ugliest sod in the class.