George Michael Quotes
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Things that I was writing for Wham! were a strong indication of what my future album would be like. But most people got so lost in our image and found it pretty repulsive.
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I'm a perfectionist. It's a big pain in the ass and it takes a lot of my time, but it really is going well and I have to do my own things.
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I've been very well remunerated for my talents over the years so I really don't need the public's money.
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This is a very fickle business. It's really about how much you value the other things in your life. I still value too many other things more than I do fame.
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It does bother me when they tabloids drag friends of mine into it and talk about them and lie about them. My friends have no part in it; they're not celebrities, so why should they have to accept the downside of celebrity? That worries me for a bit.
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My dad worked in a very typical first-generation immigrant fashion - 24 hours a day for years.
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The main downside was that it fame happened so quickly and I didn't have time to establish what kind of person I wanted to be.
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My family is one of the strongest families you're ever likely to see.
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I can't believe that I've written my best work yet. If I believed that, then I wouldn't bother releasing music anymore.
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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.
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I'm never going to dance again. Guilty feet have got no rhythm.
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My mother pretty much used to go along with my dad in that she wanted me to get an education so that if this incredible dream I had didn't work out, I would have something to fall back on.
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I would advise any gay person that being out in the real sense can never happen too soon.
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This stuff marijuana keeps me sane and happy. I'd say it's a great drug - but obviously it's not very healthy.
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I have been taken for a ride a couple of times. I've been hurt by people who I've had a 90 percent possibility of being hurt by.
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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.
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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.
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I don't consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying.
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Change is a stranger you have yet to know.
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Basically I see that song as a bunch of images which I threw together to represent the fact that I was seeing one girl and then I started seeing another, and it was just the guilt in between those two periods. The ballads I've written since have been about things that really hurt me.
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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.
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I have to believe that somebody up there thinks I've still got some work to do.
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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.
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My parents both came from very poor working-class families.