When I open my mouth and sing, the truth comes out. When I write, the truth comes out. I can't lie. That, I think, is one of the strongest elements of my music. When people talk about my writing as though I'm doing it from an accountant's perspective, it really pisses me off.

The thing that's weird is that we thought it was funny. We expected people to get the joke - that we [with Andrew Ridgeley] were two guys really making asses of ourselves.

I have to believe that somebody up there thinks I've still got some work to do.

It's the ones who resist that we most want to kiss, wouldn't you say?

It was like I had a curse on me. I couldn't believe how much God was piling on. There was so much death around me.

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

No fantasies, I don't think. Most of my fantasies have already been realized.