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.

I think I'm getting there, but it's very hard to perform at my absolute peak when an awful lot of people come just to make their presence known, when the lights go down and all you can hear is people screaming.

We [with Andrew Ridgeley] didn't expect people to take it seriously. But naturally they did, and they thought we were a couple of wankers.

I'm not anti-American. I've lived with Kenny, a Texan, for six years.

Teacher, there are things that I don't want to learn.

A lot of people felt that I was just tying that into the "I Want Your Sex" theme because of the AIDS thing and the prospect of the song's being banned. I thought it was a relevant point to make because of the AIDS thing. I wanted to write a song which sounded dirty but which was applicable to someone that I really cared about. That was my point.

I suppose maybe if I had been an attractive child, I would have had less inclination to push my physical presence.