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I am a political person, though not with a big P.
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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.
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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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I have definitely reached the same level as Madonna in terms of sales. I'm really pleased about that.
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You can have my credit card, baby, but keep your red hot fingers off of my heart, lady.
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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)
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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.
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I am really not interested or excited by repeating former successes.
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Say what you want about America - thirteen bucks can still get you a hell of a lot of mice!
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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.
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I'm the luckiest writer on earth.
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I seem to think that anything worth having in life has to be painful to attain.
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I never had a moral problem with being gay.
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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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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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Freedom. I won't let you down.
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Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.
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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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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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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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There is no such thing as a reluctant star.
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Be good to yourself 'cause nobody else has the power to make you happy.
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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.
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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.