In the very early days of Wham! the attention felt great, but I do wonder how much freedom I gave away by trying to become something I wasn't.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It was a great childhood. We weren't especially wealthy or anything, but I felt I had a kind of safety and freedom.
I wanted to find a way of life that allowed me great freedom, not to be stuck. I went to a very traditional school, which prepared people for the army or for banking or for industry, and I wanted to be outside of that.
Theater opened up a whole new world for me. It was a freedom I'd never known before.
I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn't making money, but making an impact.
I discovered freedom for the first time in England.
I think back to my time in children's television, back in the 1970s, and the amount of innovation that was going on then. Because the mass market wasn't focused on it, so you had a freedom to do amazing things, like 'Vision On,' and 'Tiswas.'
I never realized how much I cherished having creative freedom.
Growing up in the '50s and being in the '60s, in that revolutionary time space, I thought freedom was what I was looking for. Slowly but surely, it became clear that the last thing I was interested in was freedom. Because if you're going to be free, you have to be free from something.
I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.
I remember the absolute, joyous freedom I felt when I first went to college: I had no bedtime, no curfew, no rules - I loved it. I was in charge. I couldn't believe I didn't have to answer to anyone.