I just feel "One More Try" is better lyrically. "Careless Whisper" was written when I was 17 years old, and I had not really experienced anything that strong in my life, so it was a bit precocious.

Yet ["One More Try" ] really seemed to connect with people, which is a wonderful thing and a marvelous coincidence.

For a while I took Ecstacy when it was not very available over here. I took it simply because it made me feel that everything was wonderful.

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.

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

I think I've gotten everything I want out of the last years, and I still feel like I have a lot of options open to me.