George Michael Quotes

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.

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.

I think the media is a real demon.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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)

[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.

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.

Only time will set you free, just like me

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.

[My father] was not a musical man.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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?

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

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

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?