George Michael quotes

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.
-- George Michael

#Business #Vanity #Self

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.
-- George Michael

#Thinking #Careers #Tvs

You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.
-- George Michael

#Heart #Gay #Mind

There is no such thing as a reluctant star.
-- George Michael

#Stars

I have the audience I deserve. Or at least I have the audience that represents the kind of people that I like.
-- George Michael

#People #Kind #Audience

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

#Queens #Careers #Childhood

Celebrity and secrets don't go together. The bastards will get you in the end.
-- George Michael

#Secret #Together #Ends

The truth is my love life has been a lot more turbulent than I have let on.
-- George Michael

#Love Life #Truth Is

Sex is natural, sex is good/Not everybody does it, but everybody should
-- George Michael

#Sex #Doe #Natural

I've done too many stupid things for there not to be movies made about me when I'm dead, so I might as well write the script.
-- George Michael

#Stupid #Writing #Done

I can't bear Catholicism.
-- George Michael

#Bears #Catholicism

I define my sexuality in terms of the people that I love.
-- George Michael

#Love #People #Sexuality

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

#Bullying #Government #Bully

I am really not interested or excited by repeating former successes.
-- George Michael

#Excited #Not Interested #Former

I am a political person, though not with a big P.
-- George Michael

#Political #Bigs #Persons

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

#Book #Way #My Way

Even though it's become a really cliched thing to see musicians working for charity, it's still effective and it still has to be done.
-- George Michael

#Musician #Done #Charity

English people have seen me get through scandals.
-- George Michael

#People #Scandal

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

#Stars #Self #People

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

#Important #Should

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

#Years #Needs #Talent

Yeah, I'm going to need a leather jacket for when I'm on my hog and need to go into a controlled slide.
-- George Michael

#Needs #Slides #Yeah

Change is a stranger you have yet to know.
-- George Michael

#Expression #Stranger

I have to believe that somebody up there thinks I've still got some work to do.
-- George Michael

#Believe #Thinking #Stills

Teacher, there are things that I don't want to learn.
-- George Michael

#Teacher #Want

Stupid cupid keeps on calling me, but I see nothing in his eyes. I miss my babe
-- George Michael

#Stupid #Eye #Missing

My American gay audience have continued to dance and sing to the music I make in a way that straight Americans haven't. I am grateful to them for that.
-- George Michael

#Dance #Grateful #Gay

Because of the media, the way the world is perceived is as a place where resources and time are running out. We're taught that you have to grab what you can before it's gone. It's almost as if there isn't time for compassion.
-- George Michael

#Running #Compassion #Media

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.
-- George Michael

#Philosophy #Caring #Joy

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

#Growing Up #Years #Growing

For a while I took Ecstacy when it was not very available over here. I took it simply because it made me feel that everything was wonderful.
-- George Michael

#Drug #Wonderful #Made

People, you can never change the way they feel. Better let them do what they will. For they will, if you let them, steal your heart.
-- George Michael

#Heart #Feel Better #People

Be good to yourself 'cause nobody else has the power to make you happy.
-- George Michael

#Inspirational #Causes #Make You Happy

When you shake you ass, they notice fast. And some mistakes were built to last.
-- George Michael

#Art #Mistake #Media

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

#Artist #Duality

It was like I had a curse on me. I couldn't believe how much God was piling on. There was so much death around me.
-- George Michael

#Believe #Mental Illness #Illness

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

#Inspirational #Real #Gay

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.
-- George Michael

#Goodbye #Careers #America

I went to prison, I paid my bill.
-- George Michael

#Bills #Prison

I've wondered what my sexuality might be, but I've never wondered whether it was acceptable or not. Anyway, who really cares whether I'm gay or straight?
-- George Michael

#Gay #Care #Might

I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.
-- George Michael

#Believe #Men #Music Is

I'm surprised that I've survived my own dysfunction, really.
-- George Michael

#Dysfunction

I have never thought about my sexuality being right or wrong. To me it has always been a case of finding the right person.
-- George Michael

#Sexuality #Cases #Persons

Don't let the sun go down on me Although I search myself, it's always someone else I see I'd just allow a fragment of your life to wander free But losing everything is like the sun going down on me
-- George Michael

#Song #Sun #Losing

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

#Hurt #Worry #Want

I have never felt any ethnic connection between the Greeks and me other than how hairy I am.
-- George Michael

#Greek #Connections

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

#Thinking #Frailty

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.
-- George Michael

#Confidence #Song #Views

All we have to see is that I don't belong to you, and you don't belong to me.
-- George Michael

I do think that Live Aid (1985) (TV) was a great thing, it focused people, I think it showed young kids the way in many respects and I think a lot of people are still inspired by what happened in the mid-Eighties.
-- George Michael

#Kids #Thinking #People

It's the ones who resist that we most want to kiss, wouldn't you say?
-- George Michael

#Broken Heart #Kissing #Want

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.
-- George Michael

#Political #Groups #Minorities

I probably owe an apology to fans that have been supportive and have not wanted to believe any of this was true. It takes a little bit of the sheen off of the mystique.
-- George Michael

#Believe #Apology #Supportive

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

#Joy #Listening

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.
-- George Michael

#Couple #Aquariums #Essentials

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.
-- George Michael

#Stars #People #Weakness

I'm the luckiest writer on earth.
-- George Michael

#Earth

I went through a long period where I was afraid of doing things I wanted to do, and you get your courage back, which is what's important.
-- George Michael

#Long #Important #Periods

I find it too terrifying to go out in L.A.
-- George Michael

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

#Birthday #People #Age

So you scream from behind your door, say what's mine is mine, and not yours I may have too much, but I'll take my chances Cause God's stopped keeping score And you cling to the things they sold you Didn't you cover your eyes when they told you that he can't come back Cause he has no children to come back for It so hard to learn, there's so much to hate Hanging on to hope when there is no hope to speak of And the wounded skies above say it's much too late So maybe we should all be praying for time
-- George Michael

#Song #Children #Hate

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

#Business #Thinking #Want