My parents both came from very poor working-class families.

I never had a moral problem with being gay.

It's really difficult trying to find the line where you don't piss anybody off.

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

I seem to think that anything worth having in life has to be painful to attain.

I think I'm getting there, but it's very hard to perform at my absolute peak when an awful lot of people come just to make their presence known, when the lights go down and all you can hear is people screaming.

[My father] was not a musical man.