I was at Live Aid the original, looking like Rolf Harris for some reason. I had a really long beard that day for some reason.

It was a very lucky set of incidents that led to Wham! getting a record contract - although we weren't Wham! when we got the record contract. We were nothing; we were just two friends who had written a few songs.

I would advise any gay person that being out in the real sense can never happen too soon.

At a certain age I just stopped arguing. I realized that there was no way [my father] could see, because for him to approve of what I was doing, he would have to have some belief in me as a musician.

No fantasies, I don't think. Most of my fantasies have already been realized.

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

I hope it really comes off. It would make my dad really proud." (about the song for the coming 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, Greece)