George Michael Quotations

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

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

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

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

I think the media is a real demon.

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.

There is no such thing as a reluctant star.

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

My depression at the end of Wham! was because I was beginning to realise I was gay, not bi.

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

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

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

There's no comfort in the truth, pain is all you'll find.

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

The fact I had my father as an adversary was such a powerful tool to work with. I subconsciously fought him to the degree that I drove me to be one of the most successful musician in the world.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

It's only when the kids are in their late twenties that families really face up to what they are.

I watch people who are not driven by creativity any more, and I think how dull it must be to produce the same kind of thing. If you don't feel you're reaching something new, then don't do it.

I never minded being thought of as a pop star. People have always thought I wanted to be seen as a serious musician, but I didn't, I just wanted people to know that I was absolutely serious about pop music.

The media has affected everybody's consciousness much more than most people will admit.

You can't imagine what it's like playing to people who have been loyal to you for 25 years and haven't seen you for 15.

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

I went to prison, I paid my bill.

I'm not a novelty act from the '80s in most parts of the world.

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

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

I know I have a very self-destructive tendency since my mother died, I have got to be honest.

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

I've achieved what every artist wants, which is that some of their work will outlive them.

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

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

I have got other interests than just making music. I would like to follow those interests through.

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

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

Of course, I want to sell this record - there's no point making it otherwise.

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.

I do want people to know that the songs that I wrote when I was with women were really about women. And the songs that I've written since have been fairly obvious about men.

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.

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.

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.

The '90s were a bit of a disaster for me in so many ways. On a personal level, I don't think I could have toured. Also, I had some physical problems with my back that are now sorted and I just wasn't in the right state of mind.

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

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

English people have seen me get through scandals.

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

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

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

I have more love, success, and security than I could ever dream of.

I mean, I've done different things at different times that I shouldn't have done, once or twice, you know.

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

I've always been the porky boy in my head.

I've written a whole body of work that I'm incredibly proud of.

If I can just live further from the spotlight I think that'll be better for all really.

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.

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.

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.

I find myself sympathizing with the Americans. Why should they buy this rubbish? Even we aren't buying it in any great numbers.

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

He was really looking forward to training his son to be a fireman.

Please listen to this song. This one is called, 'Brother Can You Spare a Dime,'

We want to do it, just in case. You never know, I could get hit by a bus and the poor man could have nothing.

(It's) intended as a piece of political satire, no more no less, and I hope that it will make people laugh and dance, and then think a little, that's all.

It was nothing really, but again it becomes this massive drama.

It's necessary because people who might rob you know there will be money there. But the games at private homes are more dangerous, because most don't have any security. If it's the same group of guys playing on the same night, in the same place, every week, it's easy to spot that pattern. You can see the cars all lining up on the street on the same night, and you know what's going on. That leaves you pretty vulnerable.

I'm sure Kenny (Goss) and I will be doing the old legal thing, but we won't be doing the whole veil and gown thing. It'll be relatively soon after it comes in, probably early next year.

For my own family, we lived out in the country and we'd go out in the yard with the telescope. I'd point out the stars and the planets.

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.

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.

I can't bear Catholicism.

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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.

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

Only time will set you free, just like me

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

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

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

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)

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." (about his latest song Shoot the Dog)

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.

Change is a stranger you have yet to know.

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.

I'm the luckiest writer on earth.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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