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

The Wham! thing was, as I said, very confusing, and much of our image was totally fake.

Sex is natural, sex is good/Not everybody does it, but everybody should

It does bother me when they [tabloids] drag friends of mine into it and talk about them and lie about them. My friends have no part in it; they're not celebrities, so why should they have to accept the downside of celebrity? That worries me for a bit.

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

People run on and off the stage, but usually they're removed before they get to me. It's not really frightening. There's always the possibility that someone's going to take a potshot at you; you take that risk when you perform in front of thousands of people.

[My father] was not a musical man.