George Michael Quotes
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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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English people have seen me get through scandals.
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I guess I was about 15. I wore glasses at the time, and I remember first girlfriend sitting on the floor at a party, one of those school parties where everyone is getting off with each other. I remember her taking my glasses off and saying something very complimentary about my eyes or whatever, and I was just so pissed off because I was convinced she was taking the piss out of me.
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My music is some of the most honest music that's been released and I think that's why people buy it.
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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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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 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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The most common misconception people have had in the past is about my own control and calculation of my career.
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I'm the luckiest writer on earth.
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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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I am really not interested or excited by repeating former successes.
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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.
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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 am a political person, though not with a big P.
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A lot of people felt that I was just tying that into the "I Want Your Sex" theme because of the AIDS thing and the prospect of the song's being banned. I thought it was a relevant point to make because of the AIDS thing. I wanted to write a song which sounded dirty but which was applicable to someone that I really cared about. That was my point.
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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 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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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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Teacher, there are things that I don't want to learn.
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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 suppose romantically there are fantasies that can still be realized. But not professionally.
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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.