I don't go for safe options. Romantically, I go for people who are a pain in the ass.

Take back your picture in a frame. Take back your singing in the rain. I just hope you understand sometimes the clothes do not make the man.

I can't believe that I've written my best work yet. If I believed that, then I wouldn't bother releasing music anymore.

You couldn't release the single on its own, because no one wanted it.

I left school at 17 and was a star by the time I was 18 - in certain parts of the world anyway.

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.

50 percent of the people I perform for have come to scream at me and the other 50 percent have come to listen to the music.