Basically I see that song as a bunch of images which I threw together to represent the fact that I was seeing one girl and then I started seeing another, and it was just the guilt in between those two periods. The ballads I've written since have been about things that really hurt me.

[Wham!] totally changed my life. It would be very difficult to know how it changed me as a person; you'd have to ask other people that.

I think the media is a real demon.

I was supposed to be a real Thatcherite. Just by dint of being a first-generation immigrant and having not had money, and then suddenly having it - and getting on planes and going to Ibiza and sitting around in thongs. But actually nothing I was writing or doing was even vaguely Thatcherite.

Playing with Queen was the biggest moment of my career. It was like living a childhood fantasy.

We [with Andrew Ridgeley] were getting so much attention and achieving such success. It never really bothered me.

Without despair, we will share, and the joys of caring will not be erased. What has been, must never end, the joys of caring will not be replace.