I thought I had fallen in love with a woman a couple of times. Then I fell in love with a man, and realised that none of those things had been love.

My dad worked in a very typical first-generation immigrant fashion - 24 hours a day for years.

[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.

[Tabloids] could call you a child molester, I suppose, but they just go for the two things they think people are most likely to believe and that will most offend yourself and your popularity. My skin hardened to all that stuff years ago.

Take back your picture in a frame. Take back your singing in the rain. I just hope you understand sometimes the clothes do not make the man.

I can't believe that I've written my best work yet. If I believed that, then I wouldn't bother releasing music anymore.

I probably owe an apology to fans that have been supportive and have not wanted to believe any of this was true. It takes a little bit of the sheen off of the mystique.