George Michael Quotes
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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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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 hate the actual traveling, but I like playing.
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It's so easy to find someone who would walk around me like a shadow and do everything for me and never be tempted by other men, so obviously I'm not attracted by that type.
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I have the audience I deserve. Or at least I have the audience that represents the kind of people that I like.
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I'm never going to dance again. Guilty feet have got no rhythm.
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We had to create an album where there wasn't one. I never listen to that album Music From the Edge of Heaven because it wasn't an album.
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I'm not a great collaborator, to tell the truth.
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I don't consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying.
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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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Change is a stranger you have yet to know.
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Marriage still means a lot more in the country I come from than it does here. I don't think there's anything to be gained by it for the couple. But for children I think it's an important thing.
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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.
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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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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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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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No fantasies, I don't think. Most of my fantasies have already been realized.
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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 like having my picture taken and I don't like looking at myself because I don't particularly like what I see.
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Freedom. I will not give you up.
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Playing with Queen was the biggest moment of my career. It was like living a childhood fantasy.
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I had a very important personal point to make with this song I Want Your Sex. I just hated the idea that lust and forbidden excitement could only come with sleaze and strangers.
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Only time will set you free, just like me.
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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.