George Michael Quotes
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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I have never thought about my sexuality being right or wrong. To me it has always been a case of finding the right person.
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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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We always talked with Andrew Ridgeley about when it would happen - we always knew that I would go on to have a solo career.
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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.
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English people have seen me get through scandals.
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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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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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I'm surprised that I've survived my own dysfunction, really.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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I have definitely reached the same level as Madonna in terms of sales. I'm really pleased about that.
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It's almost required with major artists that there's some duality. And I've got duality everywhere.
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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.
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With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people's self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition.
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I'm not anti-American. I've lived with Kenny, a Texan, for six years.
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I think my idea of a perfect romance is when two people really belong to each other.
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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.
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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.