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

Everything was meant to wind people up [in Make It Big ]. I don't know why we had this great pleasure in winding people up, but we really did think they would get the joke. And it backfired on us.

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.

Be good to yourself 'cause nobody else has the power to make you happy.

There's something deep inside of me. There's someone else I've got to be.

All we have to see is that I don't belong to you, and you don't belong to me.

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