We always talked [with Andrew Ridgeley] about when it would happen - we always knew that I would go on to have a solo career.
I wanted to put out a solo record because I was stuck on a major label and sick of it.
A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have people BOW DOWN to them. To me, that's frightful behaviour.
It's a torturous time when you learn almost everything you really have to know about survival. The important thing to remember when you are living through it, however, is that you have absolutely no idea quite how smart and strong and beautiful the pain will make you. So go forth and suffer. . . you'll rule the world.
I was a redhead and a middle child; both can make you feel excluded. It's like fighting to be included, in the swim of things. After a while you start to develop a bit of a victim mentality, which isn't great for a happy life.
The sensation of never feeling good enough or pretty enough will always be there. It's a constant dialogue, and you just learn to be more powerful than that other voice. When you hear it come up, you shut it down.
I want to hear an alternative viewpoint, and I don't want girls to be defanged and declawed and pretty and mute.
Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
Even when I cannot write, I know I am still a writer, just the way I know I am still sexual even if I have not had a lover for many months.
On average, 90 percent of the variability of returns and 100 percent of the absolute level of return is explained by asset allocation.
Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.