George Michael Quotes:

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

Topics: Business, Vanity, Self, Self-satisfaction

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.

Topics: Thinking, Careers, Tvs

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

source: - "George Michael’s Last Christmas" by Siobhan Kukolic, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 26, 2016.

Topics: Heart, Gay, Mind, Peaceful Heart, Heart And Mind

There is no such thing as a reluctant star.

Topics: Stars

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

Topics: People, Kind, Audience

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

Topics: Queens, Careers, Childhood

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

Topics: Secret, Together, Ends

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

Topics: Love Life, Truth Is

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

Topics: 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.

Topics: Stupid, Writing, Done

I can't bear Catholicism.

Topics: Bears, Catholicism

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

Topics: Love, People, Sexuality

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

Topics: Bullying, Government, Bully

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

Topics: Excited, Not Interested, Former

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

Topics: Political, Bigs, Persons

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

Topics: 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.

Topics: Musician, Done, Charity

English people have seen me get through scandals.

Topics: 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.

Topics: Stars, Self, People, Pop Stars, Film Stars

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

Topics: Important, Should

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

Topics: 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.

Topics: Needs, Slides, Yeah, Leather Jackets

Change is a stranger you have yet to know.

source: - Song: Older, Album: Older, 1996

Topics: Expression, Stranger

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

Topics: Believe, Thinking, Stills

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

Topics: Teacher, Want

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

Topics: Stupid, Eye, Missing, Cupid

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.

Topics: 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.

source: - "RECORDINGS; George Michael on Fame and 'Freedom'" by Stephen Holden, www.nytimes.com. September 16, 1990.

Topics: 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.

source: - Song: I Believe, Album: Faith

Topics: Philosophy, Caring, Joy

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

Topics: 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.

Topics: 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.

Topics: Heart, Feel Better, People

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

Topics: Inspirational, Causes, Make You Happy

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

Topics: Art, Mistake, Media

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

Topics: 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.

Topics: Believe, Mental Illness, Illness

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

Topics: 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.

Topics: Goodbye, Careers, America

I went to prison, I paid my bill.

Topics: 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?

Topics: Gay, Care, Might

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

source: - Twitter post from Dec 02, 2014

Topics: Believe, Men, Music Is

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

Topics: Dysfunction, Survived

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

Topics: Sexuality, Cases, Persons, Finding The Right Person, Right Person

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

Topics: 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.

Topics: Hurt, Worry, Want

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

source: - 2004 In Scotland on Sunday,14 Mar.

Topics: Greek, Connections

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

Topics: 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.

Topics: Confidence, Song, Views, Serious Issues

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

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.

Topics: Kids, Thinking, People, Eighty

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

Topics: 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.

Topics: Political, Groups, Minorities, Minority Groups

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.

Topics: Believe, Apology, Supportive

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

Topics: 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.

Topics: 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.

Topics: Stars, People, Weakness

I'm the luckiest writer on earth.

Topics: 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.

Topics: Long, Important, Periods

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

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

Topics: 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

Topics: 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.

Topics: Business, Thinking, Want

When I open my mouth and sing, the truth comes out. When I write, the truth comes out. I can't lie. That, I think, is one of the strongest elements of my music. When people talk about my writing as though I'm doing it from an accountant's perspective, it really pisses me off.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Lying, Writing, Thinking, Truth Comes Out

Me, I don’t want any children, I don’t want responsibility. I am gay, I smoke weed and I do exactly what I want in my life because of my talent. I represent an ideal which others have had to let go and they blame me for that. Especially men.

source: - Interview with Eddy Lawrence, www.timeout.com. June, 4 2007.

Topics: Letting Go, Weed, Children, Smoke Weed, I Smoke Weed

It's really difficult trying to find the line where you don't piss anybody off.

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Topics: Trying, Lines, Difficult

I seem to think that anything worth having in life has to be painful to attain.

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Topics: Thinking, Anything Worth Having, Painful

Freedom. I will not give you up.

source: - "Song: "Freedom! '90" ("Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1")". 1990.

Topics: Giving

I just hope that I'll stay around musically for as long as I can. I love to think that I will still be satisfying myself and other people as a musician until the day I die.

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Topics: Thinking, Long, People

I think my idea of a perfect romance is when two people really belong to each other.

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Topics: Thinking, Ideas, Two

Only time will set you free, just like me

Topics: Like Me, Only Time

My music is some of the most honest music that's been released and I think that's why people buy it.

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Topics: Thinking, People, Honest

50 percent of the people I perform for have come to scream at me and the other 50 percent have come to listen to the music.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: People, Scream, Percent

I don't go for safe options. Romantically, I go for people who are a pain in the ass.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Pain, People, Safe

I guess I was about 15. I wore glasses at the time, and I remember [first girlfriend] sitting on the floor at a party, one of those school parties where everyone is getting off with each other. I remember her taking my glasses off and saying something very complimentary about my eyes or whatever, and I was just so pissed off because I was convinced she was taking the piss out of me.

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Topics: Girlfriend, Party, School

There's something deep inside of me. There's someone else I've got to be.

source: - "Song: "Freedom! '90" ("Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1")". 1990.

Topics: Deep Inside

We [with Andrew Ridgeley] didn't expect people to take it seriously. But naturally they did, and they thought we were a couple of wankers.

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Topics: Couple, People, Andrew

Take back your picture in a frame. Take back your singing in the rain. I just hope you understand sometimes the clothes do not make the man.

source: - "Song: "Freedom! '90" ("Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1")". 1990.

Topics: Rain, Men, Clothes, Singing In The Rain

I can't believe that I've written my best work yet. If I believed that, then I wouldn't bother releasing music anymore.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Believe, Best Work, Bother

I think the media is a real demon.

Topics: Real, Thinking, Media

George was the easy part. As for Michael, I had always liked the name, and my father's brother is named Michael. I thought it was a good idea because there are a lot of Greeks in England with the second name of Michael; as a child I had a Greek friend whose second name was Michael. It was like getting the name that I wanted without having to get rid of the Greek element.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Brother, Children, Father

This is a very fickle business. It's really about how much you value the other things in your life. I still value too many other things more than I do fame.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Fickle, Fame, Stills

"Yog" is an abbreviation - my real name is Yorgos, which is Greek for George.

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Topics: Real, Names, Greek, Abbreviations

I mean, it is the perfect situation to really love someone to death and to want to rip their clothes off at the same time, isn't it?

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Topics: Rip, Mean, Clothes

There are very few things in my life that I can't have if I want them. So when I see something that I can't have, immediately I'm obsessed by it.

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Topics: Want, Obsessed, Ifs

It's an incredibly limited sphere those tabloids have, isn't it? Basically, they can accuse people of being gay and they can accuse people of taking drugs, but they can't get any more sensational without entering into the realm of incredibly bad taste.

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Topics: Gay, People, Drug, Sensational

I just mean people who seem unavailable in the sense that they're not prepared to totally cling to anyone. I'm very attracted to people who are basically free spirits.

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Topics: Mean, People, Free Spirit

I just feel "One More Try" is better lyrically. "Careless Whisper" was written when I was 17 years old, and I had not really experienced anything that strong in my life, so it was a bit precocious.

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Topics: Strong, Years, Trying

I got to say hello to Snoop Dogg. I got to, I was being barged out of the way by his bodyguards but I got to say hello to him which was cool.

source: - Source: www.gminfopage.com

Topics: Way, Hello, Bodyguard

As I became George professionally and everyone called me George, Yog became the name that people who knew me from before started to use. It became more valuable to me.

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Topics: Names, People, Use

I don't like having my picture taken and I don't like looking at myself because I don't particularly like what I see.

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Topics: Taken, Picture Taken

Both of us knew the band had run its course. We were both unhappy doing it, but I think the way Andrew [Ridgeley] was being treated as the less important half of the duo had finally taken its toll on him.

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Topics: Running, Taken, Thinking, Duos

When someone is always going to be there for you. I meet people like that all the time, but I have this unfortunate attraction to people I think I have to fight to become friends with.

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Topics: Fighting, Thinking, People

[Music From the Edge of Heaven] wasn't really an album at all. The band had made the decision to release an LP and then split up. We wanted to go out with a bang in Britain and the rest of the world by having a single that was four songs, not just one song. But we couldn't do that over here because we couldn't release a single without an album.

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Topics: Song, Decision, Heaven

I don't really feel I deserve something if I haven't had to fight for it. It's not a conscious attitude, and it's stupid and wrong. Sometimes you do deserve things without having to put yourself through agony.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Attitude, Stupid, Fighting

I suppose romantically there are fantasies that can still be realized. But not professionally.

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Topics: Fantasy, Stills

I couldn't change anything without changing the end position, and I'm perfectly happy now. So whatever I feel in some sense may have been a mistake in the past is, in another sense, not a mistake, because it's left me here.

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Topics: Mistake, Past, May

Everything was meant to wind people up [in Make It Big ]. I don't know why we had this great pleasure in winding people up, but we really did think they would get the joke. And it backfired on us.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Thinking, Wind, People

I have definitely reached the same level as Madonna in terms of sales. I'm really pleased about that.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Levels, Term

I thought I had fallen in love with a woman a couple of times. Then I fell in love with a man, and realised that none of those things had been love.

source: - Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Topics: Couple, Men, Fallen

I'm perfectly happy to admit that insecurity. It doesn't bother me. It's there, just the same as the color of my eyes is there. I'm never going to get rid of it. I'm not going to wake up one morning and really like the way I look, but as long as other people like the way I look, that's fine.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Morning, Eye, Color

I suppose maybe if I had been an attractive child, I would have had less inclination to push my physical presence.

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Topics: Children, Attractive, Inclination

At a certain age I just stopped arguing. I realized that there was no way [my father] could see, because for him to approve of what I was doing, he would have to have some belief in me as a musician.

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Topics: Father, Age, Musician

I'd never touch anything. I think it's foolhardy to play around with the face that you've been given. To have a little snip or a tuck, I think, is really quite obscene.

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Topics: Thinking, Play, Littles, Foolhardy

I truly believed that tonight would never happen, that I would never sing these songs to you again. But then I'm a fool, which you've probably worked out by now.

Topics: Song, Tonight, Fool

People run on and off the stage, but usually they're removed before they get to me. It's not really frightening. There's always the possibility that someone's going to take a potshot at you; you take that risk when you perform in front of thousands of people.

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Topics: Running, People, Risk

The only difficulty is that I'm playing to two audiences, and it's too bad the noise detracts from the show, because it's a great show. I've seen my own self out there, and it's a very good musical show. Sometimes the show gets lost in the hysteria and sometimes it doesn't.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Self, Two, Hysteria

The years between leaving school and actually becoming an adult are very important years. You make a lot of choices as to the type of life you want to lead and what type of person you want to be. There were so many people who had opinions of me, a lot of them very unflattering, that it was hard to make up my mind about who I was supposed to be.

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Topics: School, Years, People, Becoming An Adult, Leaving School

I have two sisters. My father is Greek and comes from a family of seven. My mother is English and comes from a family of five.

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Topics: Mother, Father, Two, Two Sisters

My dad worked in a very typical first-generation immigrant fashion - 24 hours a day for years.

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Topics: Fashion, Dad, Years

[My mother] pretty much used to go along with my dad in that she wanted me to get an education so that if this incredible dream I had didn't work out, I would have something to fall back on.

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Topics: Mother, Dream, Dad

[My mother] is much more musical, and by the time I started writing songs - by the time I was about 17 - she started to believe in me, musically.

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Topics: Mother, Song, Believe, Writing Songs

[My family] is one of the strongest families you're ever likely to see.

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Topics: My Family, Strongest

I've been approached many times by many different people, and most people want to do something that I write and produce, and I'm just not into that.

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Topics: Writing, People, Different

Obviously, [Wham!] made me a lot more comfortable as a musician. I was very confident that I would become a successful musician, but I had no idea I would be a celebrity.

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Topics: Successful, Ideas, Musician

[My father] was more than apprehensive. He didn't think I stood a chance in hell. He had no confidence in me whatsoever and was convinced that I was going to be coming to him for money when I was 40. We argued about it constantly.

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Topics: Father, Thinking, Chance, No Confidence

That feels natural to me, singing in a small group of people I just can't do. You'll never hear me sing at a dinner table or anything, but this feels kinda natural. I've done it many, many times. So, and also, the pressure's off me cos I'm not singing on my own. I'm just doing a few harmonies with my stuffed nose.

source: - Source: www.gminfopage.com

Topics: People, Singing, Tables

Yet ["One More Try" ] really seemed to connect with people, which is a wonderful thing and a marvelous coincidence.

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Topics: People, Trying, Coincidence

When I write and produce something, I know exactly how I want it to sound, and I have a very strong interpretation of it. I can't really think of anyone at the moment I'd particularly like to play a duet with. You never know, though, I might receive an offer tomorrow and say, "Yeah, that'd be great." But it's not something that's on my mind.

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Topics: Strong, Writing, Thinking

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

Topics: Stars, School, World

I have been taken for a ride a couple of times. I've been hurt by people who I've had a 90 percent possibility of being hurt by.

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Topics: Hurt, Couple, Taken, I've Been Hurt

I find it difficult enough as it is to keep some kind of normality in my life. I enjoy this experience, but I don't know where I'm going to take my career.

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Topics: Careers, Kind, Enough, Normality

Satire is used for political purposes all the time, but obviously there's a time and a place. I think in the current climate, it can be very difficult to speak your mind, but sometimes, I believe, we're all in danger and I think this discussion needs to be widened.

Topics: Believe, Thinking, Speak Your Mind

I get along really well with [my father] now, but I had a terrible time with him in my teenage years. All we did was scream at each other, and when we weren't screaming at each other, we just wouldn't talk to each other.

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Topics: Teenage, Father, Years, Terrible Times

I always knew I was attractive to girls just from the point of view that they liked me.

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Topics: Girl, Views, Attractive

I can't talk about Kathy [Jeung] anymore, because she doesn't want me to talk about her, and I'm not even sure that it's an ongoing relationship.

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Topics: Ongoing, Want, Want Me

I'm a perfectionist. It's a big pain in the ass and it takes a lot of my time, but it really is going well and I have to do my own things.

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Topics: Pain, Ass, Perfectionist

I had a very important personal point to make with this song [I Want Your Sex]. I just hated the idea that lust and forbidden excitement could only come with sleaze and strangers.

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Topics: Song, Sex, Ideas, Sleazes

The word that pisses me off - "prepubescent."

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I think I'm getting there, but it's very hard to perform at my absolute peak when an awful lot of people come just to make their presence known, when the lights go down and all you can hear is people screaming.

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Topics: Thinking, Light, People

I was supposed to be a real Thatcherite. Just by dint of being a first-generation immigrant and having not had money, and then suddenly having it - and getting on planes and going to Ibiza and sitting around in thongs. But actually nothing I was writing or doing was even vaguely Thatcherite.

Topics: Real, Writing, Ibiza, Thongs

It was a very lucky set of incidents that led to Wham! getting a record contract - although we weren't Wham! when we got the record contract. We were nothing; we were just two friends who had written a few songs.

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Topics: Song, Two Friends, Lucky

It's so easy to find someone who would walk around me like a shadow and do everything for me and never be tempted by other men, so obviously I'm not attracted by that type.

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Topics: Men, Shadow, Easy

This stuff [marijuana] keeps me sane and happy. I'd say it's a great drug - but obviously it's not very healthy.

Topics: Marijuana, Drug, Healthy

By the time I was in my early teens, we were able to move into a much more middle-class area. I had a comfortable adolescence.

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Topics: Moving, Class, Teens

I want the people who came to listen to have a good time as well. So it's a matter of playing a control game when all I really want to do is go out there and sing.

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Topics: Games, People, Want

I had surprisingly little money when Wham! ended. You'd be very surprised how little, really, because you don't realize how much money it takes to maintain a band.

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Topics: Band, Littles, Realizing

Basically I see that song as a bunch of images which I threw together to represent the fact that I was seeing one girl and then I started seeing another, and it was just the guilt in between those two periods. The ballads I've written since have been about things that really hurt me.

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Topics: Girl, Song, Hurt

I had my very first relationship at 27 because I really had not actually come to terms with my sexuality until I was 24.

source: - Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Topics: Firsts, Sexuality, Term

I also think I could probably repeat the commercial success; whether I want to or not is a different matter. I think there is still better work inside me.

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Topics: Thinking, Different, Want

It's quite simple: I managed it by doing away with Wham!'s duo image. Obviously, the way I looked changed and that helped a little, but I still have a very pop image. It's a very video-friendly image. I find it a lot more real. It's a lot closer to who I am than the whole Wham! thing.

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Topics: Real, Simple, Who I Am, Duos

Freedom. I won't let you down.

source: - "Song: "Freedom! '90" ("Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1")". 1990.

I wouldn't marry until I was ready to have children.

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Topics: Children, Ready

The most common misconception people have had in the past is about my own control and calculation of my career.

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Topics: Past, Careers, People, Calculations

I hope it really comes off. It would make my dad really proud." (about the song for the coming 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, Greece)

Topics: Summer, Song, Dad

Say what you want about America - thirteen bucks can still get you a hell of a lot of mice!

Topics: America, Want, Bucks

It does bother me when they [tabloids] drag friends of mine into it and talk about them and lie about them. My friends have no part in it; they're not celebrities, so why should they have to accept the downside of celebrity? That worries me for a bit.

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Topics: Lying, Worry, Doe

Still, the music was always there, and the lyrical capability was always threatening to show its head.

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Topics: Threatening, Lyrical, Shows

I didn't expect to enter into tabloid trivia or anything like that. So I suspect my perspective and a lot of my ideas changed fairly drastically. It was also rather confusing.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Ideas, Perspective, Confusing

The thing that's weird is that we thought it was funny. We expected people to get the joke - that we [with Andrew Ridgeley] were two guys really making asses of ourselves.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Two, People, Guy, Two Guys

Andrew [Ridgeley] and I had demoed a couple of our songs very cheaply, and we weren't expecting any kind of record deal. We just walked around with our demo tape, trying to find someone to give us the money to demo properly. Instead of that, we got a record contract. It was just an incredibly lucky break.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Song, Couple, Giving, Demos, Lucky Breaks

This was absolutely an attack on [British Prime Minister] Tony Blair, principally, and the perspective which is really predominant in Europe right now that he's not questioning enough of Mr. Bush's policies.

source: - "George Michael defends political lampoon". www.cnn.com. July 5, 2002.

Topics: Dog, Song, Europe

There's not another drug in life that I'm glad I took but grass.

source: - "Exclusive: George Michael on Drugs". Interview with Melvyn Bragg, www.mirror.co.uk. October 20, 2006.

Topics: Drug, Grass, Glad

My parents both came from very poor working-class families.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Class, Parent, Poor

Things that I was writing for Wham! were a strong indication of what my future album would be like. But most people got so lost in our image and found it pretty repulsive.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Strong, Writing, People

I'm looking back to a period of my life when I was badly hurt and then looking at another time when I felt I had things going for me again, so I suppose there is a theme [of the Faith album].

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Hurt, Albums, Periods, Another Time

You couldn't release the single on its own, because no one wanted it.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Release, Wanted

I think part of it has got to be compensation, yes, for the fact that when I was a kid, I wasn't particularly attractive. But at the same time I don't remember ever thinking, Oh, my God, I'm such a mess; I'm the ugliest sod in the class.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Kids, Thinking, Class, Sod

You can have my credit card, baby, but keep your red hot fingers off of my heart, lady.

source: - Song: Credit Card Baby

Topics: Baby, Heart, Hot, Red Hot

When Andrew [Ridgeley] first met my family, he heard my mom calling me "Yorgos." He just abbreviated it to Yog, and unfortunately it stuck. I hated it is a teenager. It was not the most glamorous-sounding name in the world.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Mom, Teenager, Names

The main downside was that it [fame] happened so quickly and I didn't have time to establish what kind of person I wanted to be.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Kind, Fame, Wanted

Mike Tyson has been accused of being a homosexual. What change do I have, you know? Everyone's in the same boat? Who could possibly care or believe anything after hearing that, really?

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Believe, Care, Hearing

I think I've gotten everything I want out of the last years, and I still feel like I have a lot of options open to me.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Thinking, Years, Lasts

A lot of people felt that I was just tying that into the "I Want Your Sex" theme because of the AIDS thing and the prospect of the song's being banned. I thought it was a relevant point to make because of the AIDS thing. I wanted to write a song which sounded dirty but which was applicable to someone that I really cared about. That was my point.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Song, Sex, Dirty

I'm never going to dance again. Guilty feet have got no rhythm.

source: - "Song: "Careless Whisper" ("Careless Whisper")". 1984.

Topics: Feet, Guilty, Rhythm

People have speculated about my sexuality for years and years. They are obviously interested in my sex life. Fine. Let them speculate. I'm not going to put them right one way or the other.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Sex, Years, People

I never had a moral problem with being gay.

source: - Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Topics: Gay, Moral, Problem

I was at Live Aid the original, looking like Rolf Harris for some reason. I had a really long beard that day for some reason.

source: - Source: www.gminfopage.com

Topics: Long, Beard, Reason, Really Long

In the rest of the world we had had two albums that were successful, so those two albums' hits and this new four-single package made up an album called Wham! The Final, which is basically greatest hits. We couldn't have done a greatest hits over here, because we'd only done one hit album.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Successful, Two, Albums

I thought [first girlfriend] was trying to make a fool out of me. Then I found out that she wasn't, and we went out. That's a very good example of how little confidence I had.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Girlfriend, Trying, Example

I think marriage is a good thing for children, because it gives them a feeling of security.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Children, Thinking, Giving

We had to create an album where there wasn't one. I never listen to that album [ Music From the Edge of Heaven] because it wasn't an album.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Heaven, Albums, Edges

No fantasies, I don't think. Most of my fantasies have already been realized.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Thinking, Fantasy

I didn't really think that it would be as easy as this. I did believe that the album [Faith] had a chance, because I though the material was strong enough, but things have just gone like clockwork. It's been incredible.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Strong, Believe, Thinking

The Wham! thing was, as I said, very confusing, and much of our image was totally fake.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Fake, Confusing, Said

[Wham!] totally changed my life. It would be very difficult to know how it changed me as a person; you'd have to ask other people that.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: People, Would Be, Difficult, Changed My Life

[Tabloids] could call you a child molester, I suppose, but they just go for the two things they think people are most likely to believe and that will most offend yourself and your popularity. My skin hardened to all that stuff years ago.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Children, Believe, Thinking

[My father] was not a musical man.

Topics: Father, Men, Musical

You'd be surprised how young 25-year-old girls can sound when they want to scream. It isn't that young an audience, and it really frustrates me when I read the word "prepubescent" in my reviews. Even the ones that started following me with Wham! are in their late teens by now.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Girl, Years, Sound

I hate the actual traveling, but I like playing.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Hate, I Hate

I have no doubt that the music I release next will be better.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Doubt, Next, Release

I'm basically a control freak. It's not because I want to be. I'm not at all into the power play that's involved in it.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Play, Want, Freak, Power Play

We both [me and Andrew Ridgeley ] knew that splitting up was the right thing to do, and there was no animosity between us at all.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Splitting Up, Andrew, Things To Do, Animosity

Marriage still means a lot more in the country I come from than it does here. I don't think there's anything to be gained by it for the couple. But for children I think it's an important thing.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Country, Children, Couple

We always talked [with Andrew Ridgeley] about when it would happen - we always knew that I would go on to have a solo career.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Careers, Goes On, Solo

I lost my partner [Anselmo Feleppa] to HIV then it took about three years to grieve; then after that I lost my mother. I felt almost like I was cursed.

Topics: Mother, Grieving, Years

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

Topics: Years, Six, Texan, Anti-american, Kenny

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

Topics: Albums, Want, Stuff, Upbeat

I don't know what age the people who review my concerts reached puberty, I don't know if people in America reach puberty a lot later than they do in England or something like that, but the majority of those people are in their late teens and early twenties.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: America, People, Age

I'm not a great collaborator, to tell the truth.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Telling The Truth, Collaborators