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

You couldn't release the single on its own, because no one wanted it.

It was a very lucky set of incidents that led to Wham! getting a record contract - although we weren't Wham! when we got the record contract. We were nothing; we were just two friends who had written a few songs.

I suppose romantically there are fantasies that can still be realized. But not professionally.

I have definitely reached the same level as Madonna in terms of sales. I'm really pleased about that.

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

I was supposed to be a real Thatcherite. Just by dint of being a first-generation immigrant and having not had money, and then suddenly having it - and getting on planes and going to Ibiza and sitting around in thongs. But actually nothing I was writing or doing was even vaguely Thatcherite.