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

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

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.

The main downside was that it [fame] happened so quickly and I didn't have time to establish what kind of person I wanted to be.

People, you can never change the way they feel. Better let them do what they will. For they will, if you let them, steal your heart.

You can have my credit card, baby, but keep your red hot fingers off of my heart, lady.

In the rest of the world we had had two albums that were successful, so those two albums' hits and this new four-single package made up an album called Wham! The Final, which is basically greatest hits. We couldn't have done a greatest hits over here, because we'd only done one hit album.