I have been taken for a ride a couple of times. I've been hurt by people who I've had a 90 percent possibility of being hurt by.

I've been approached many times by many different people, and most people want to do something that I write and produce, and I'm just not into that.

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

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.

When I write and produce something, I know exactly how I want it to sound, and I have a very strong interpretation of it. I can't really think of anyone at the moment I'd particularly like to play a duet with. You never know, though, I might receive an offer tomorrow and say, "Yeah, that'd be great." But it's not something that's on my mind.

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

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