Wham! Quotes
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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 don't want to look at other people my age in leather. Why would I put it on?
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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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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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I'm surprised that I've survived my own dysfunction, really.
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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'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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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English people have seen me get through scandals.
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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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Wham! totally changed my life. It would be very difficult to know how it changed me as a person; you'd have to ask other people that.
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I'm not anti-American. I've lived with Kenny, a Texan, for six years.
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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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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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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.