I don't consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying.

There are so many things and so many aspects to gay life that I've discovered and so many things to write about. I have a new life, and I have a new take on dance music because of that life.

Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.

I never really told my parents that I wanted to be a pop star or anything. They just knew that I was totally obsessed with music. Funnily enough, my father always used to say that he didn't think I could sing.

I realised those things my ego needed - fame and success - were going to make me terribly unhappy. So I wrenched myself away from that. I had to. I had to walk away from America and say goodbye to the biggest part of my career because I knew, otherwise, my demons would get the better of me.

Stars are almost always people that want to make up for their own weaknesses by being loved by the public and I'm no exception to that.

I don't want to look at other people my age in leather. Why would I put it on?

I was brought up when media still kept totally away from violence when it came to children. I don't think it would have made me scared of violence, but I find it repulsive.

I owe my mother who I am, and my father my drive.

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

It's almost required with major artists that there's some duality. And I've got duality everywhere.

It's important to me that I should be free to express myself.

I know that I sound self-satisfied, and I know that I've got an ego, but I don't have an ego problem.

I've never done anything so political before. I've spent years shouting my mouth off about serious issues over dinner tables but never really had the confidence to express my views in a song.

My ego is sated.

The fact I had my father as an adversary was such a powerful tool to work with. I subconsciously fought him to the degree that I drove me to be one of the most successful musician in the world.

I write about my life.

I knew, regardless of anything else, singing in front of an orchestra was going to be inspirational. It would feed me.

In terms of my work, I've never been reticent in terms of defining my sexuality. I write about my life.

I've always been the porky boy in my head.

The media has affected everybody's consciousness much more than most people will admit.

I never minded being thought of as a pop star. People have always thought I wanted to be seen as a serious musician, but I didn't, I just wanted people to know that I was absolutely serious about pop music.

Your political system is actually too democratic. The fact that Americans vote on every bill and proposition can prolong bigotry indefinitely, especially where it is aimed at minority groups.

With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people's self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition.

Of course, I want to sell this record - there's no point making it otherwise.

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

I want to make a pop album - something more upbeat than my stuff was in the '90s.

I think for most of us, our biggest frailties are sexual.

I spent years growing up being told what my sexuality was.

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

It's absolutely essential that we have the same safeguards that straight couples do. But I want more than a 50 percent chance of success. I don't want to emulate that.

If I can just live further from the spotlight I think that'll be better for all really.

I'm the luckiest writer on earth.

I don't really think that there is anyone in the modern pop business who I feel I want to spar with.

I've written a whole body of work that I'm incredibly proud of.

I've been very well remunerated for my talents over the years so I really don't need the public's money.

You can't imagine what it's like playing to people who have been loyal to you for 25 years and haven't seen you for 15.

I mean, I've done different things at different times that I shouldn't have done, once or twice, you know.

I watch people who are not driven by creativity any more, and I think how dull it must be to produce the same kind of thing. If you don't feel you're reaching something new, then don't do it.

I have got other interests than just making music. I would like to follow those interests through.

I'm not a novelty act from the '80s in most parts of the world.

I really have no plans for any kind of career in TV or anything, but if I wanted to become good at it, I could. But I don't really think it's in the cards.

I don't have joy in watching myself, whereas, actually, I quite like listening to my own music.

It's only when the kids are in their late twenties that families really face up to what they are.

My depression at the end of Wham! was because I was beginning to realise I was gay, not bi.

I had to walk away from America, and say goodbye to the biggest part of my career, because I knew otherwise my demons would get the better of me.

I'm just not security-minded.

If someone really wants to hurt you, they'll find a way whatever. I don't want to live my life worrying about it.

I can't bear Catholicism.

I went to prison, I paid my bill.