It's quite simple: I managed it by doing away with Wham!'s duo image. Obviously, the way I looked changed and that helped a little, but I still have a very pop image. It's a very video-friendly image. I find it a lot more real. It's a lot closer to who I am than the whole Wham! thing.

[My father] was not a musical man.

I mean, it is the perfect situation to really love someone to death and to want to rip their clothes off at the same time, isn't it?

I'd never touch anything. I think it's foolhardy to play around with the face that you've been given. To have a little snip or a tuck, I think, is really quite obscene.

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.

I couldn't change anything without changing the end position, and I'm perfectly happy now. So whatever I feel in some sense may have been a mistake in the past is, in another sense, not a mistake, because it's left me here.

I'm basically a control freak. It's not because I want to be. I'm not at all into the power play that's involved in it.