I wanted a physical kick in the music. I wanted it to be stimulating. — Andrew Ridgeley Copy Share Image
It's nice to watch great acts perform their material. But I can't say that it tweaks any desire within. — Andrew Ridgeley Concert Copy Share Image
Give yourself a healthy bit of distance between your fame and reality because they are two different things. — Andrew Ridgeley Copy Share Image
There are people much better placed to make music than me. It's always been a young person's game. — Andrew Ridgeley Copy Share Image
We were bringing Wham! to a close, but we weren't bringing our friendship to a close. — Andrew Ridgeley Copy Share Image
One of the promises we made to each other was that Wham! would never be resurrected because it was about being young. — Andrew Ridgeley Copy Share Image
I used to love going out to discos. Chatting up the girls, getting a dance. — Andrew Ridgeley Dance Copy Share Image
It's an amazing privilege to perform for an audience paying to hear the music that you've recorded. — Andrew Ridgeley Amazing Copy Share Image
For a while, I really wasn't fussed about having a public profile. I have come to the realization that I am a… — Andrew Ridgeley Copy Share Image
George and I met in 1975 at Bushey Meads secondary school in Bushey, Hertfordshire. I was in my second year - self-confident,… — Andrew Ridgeley Copy Share Image
One has to spend time sort of really going back through one's memories. When you do start doing that then, you do… — Andrew Ridgeley Copy Share Image
Our demo tape we got signed on was composed of three songs, 'Wham Rap,' half of 'Club Tropicana' and a verse and… — Andrew Ridgeley Copy Share Image
Certainly that's what I like in a lot of the music that I listen to, kind of a sexual energy. Guitars and… — Andrew Ridgeley Copy Share Image
George has left in his songs, in the transcendent beauty of his voice, and in the poetic expression of his soul, the… — Andrew Ridgeley Beauty Copy Share Image
To actually pursue our ambition to its zenith, we should have made another album, because in the States we'd only had one… — Andrew Ridgeley Album Copy Share Image
The video for 'Last Christmas' was shot in the early winter of 1984 in the Swiss ski resort of Saas Fee. It… — Andrew Ridgeley Christmas Copy Share Image
We were in a little bubble to a degree, but you'd never really know what was going on elsewhere, you'd done a… — Andrew Ridgeley Copy Share Image
We don't like our lives being monitored, so when someone dies alone, perhaps there are always answers that remain out of reach. — Andrew Ridgeley Alone Copy Share Image
Nothing had prepared me for the depth of pain George's death precipitated. — Andrew Ridgeley Death Copy Share Image
I could see no other way of doing something with my life apart from music. — Andrew Ridgeley Life Copy Share Image
Perhaps the biggest lesson that I would say is the one to learn is not to let fame and fortune get inside… — Andrew Ridgeley Fame Copy Share Image
My material contribution musically was less than George's, and George and I have both always been very open about that. — Andrew Ridgeley Copy Share Image
I think it'd be pretty juvenile to make a record as a reaction to my critics. — Andrew Ridgeley Copy Share Image
People get very put out when someone is as forceful in their views and in their methods as George is. — Andrew Ridgeley Forceful Copy Share Image
My parents actively tried to discourage me from going into music - especially Dad, because of the troubled times he had in… — Andrew Ridgeley Dad Copy Share Image
The great thing about dancing is it's a way to get close to a beautiful woman you have never met. — Andrew Ridgeley Beautiful Copy Share Image
George probably wanted to be rich and famous - most of us do, I think - but I don't think he ever… — Andrew Ridgeley Fame Copy Share Image
I had posted a note on my bedroom door for my mum to 'wake me up-up before you go-go' - and that… — Andrew Ridgeley Copy Share Image
George was adamant his sexuality should be kept under wraps, which created a wholly unwelcome extra level of stress for him to… — Andrew Ridgeley Copy Share Image
It's very difficult to put it into words or really put your finger on exactly what it was that people found so… — Andrew Ridgeley Copy Share Image
I was never jealous of my best friend. But I was envious of his talent. I had achieved my ambition of being… — Andrew Ridgeley Ambition Copy Share Image
I had always been aware of George's importance to me, of the bond of friendship and of the sparkle and light, effervescence… — Andrew Ridgeley Electricity Copy Share Image
Despite the pain of his death, George is still very much alive in my memory today. A few years on from that… — Andrew Ridgeley Christmas Copy Share Image
George felt the group wasn't giving him the freedom he needed to develop his songwriting. But I have to admit the end… — Andrew Ridgeley Copy Share Image
A terrible additional worry was the emergence of AIDS. I know I wasn't the only friend of George's who worried about him… — Andrew Ridgeley Copy Share Image
