I really have no plans for any kind of career in TV or anything, but if I wanted to become good at it, I could. But I don't really think it's in the cards.

Obviously, [Wham!] made me a lot more comfortable as a musician. I was very confident that I would become a successful musician, but I had no idea I would be a celebrity.

Still, the music was always there, and the lyrical capability was always threatening to show its head.

We always talked [with Andrew Ridgeley] about when it would happen - we always knew that I would go on to have a solo career.

By the time I was in my early teens, we were able to move into a much more middle-class area. I had a comfortable adolescence.

The years between leaving school and actually becoming an adult are very important years. You make a lot of choices as to the type of life you want to lead and what type of person you want to be. There were so many people who had opinions of me, a lot of them very unflattering, that it was hard to make up my mind about who I was supposed to be.

[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.