George Michael Quotes

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.

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

I hate the actual traveling, but I like playing.

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

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

[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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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].

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

We [with Andrew Ridgeley] were getting so much attention and achieving such success. It never really bothered me.

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.

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.

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