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When Andrew Ridgeley first met my family, he heard my mom calling me "Yorgos." He just abbreviated it to Yog, and unfortunately it stuck. I hated it is a teenager. It was not the most glamorous-sounding name in the world.
George Michael -
I don't want to look at other people my age in leather. Why would I put it on?
George Michael
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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.
George Michael -
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.
George Michael -
The only difficulty is that I'm playing to two audiences, and it's too bad the noise detracts from the show, because it's a great show. I've seen my own self out there, and it's a very good musical show. Sometimes the show gets lost in the hysteria and sometimes it doesn't.
George Michael -
When someone is always going to be there for you. I meet people like that all the time, but I have this unfortunate attraction to people I think I have to fight to become friends with.
George Michael -
English people have seen me get through scandals.
George Michael -
The thing that's weird is that we thought it was funny. We expected people to get the joke - that we with Andrew Ridgeley were two guys really making asses of ourselves.
George Michael
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I'm surprised that I've survived my own dysfunction, really.
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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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With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people's self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition.
George Michael -
It's really difficult trying to find the line where you don't piss anybody off.
George Michael -
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)
George Michael -
The most common misconception people have had in the past is about my own control and calculation of my career.
George Michael
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Celebrity and secrets don't go together. The bastards will get you in the end.
George Michael -
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.
George Michael -
Be good to yourself 'cause nobody else has the power to make you happy.
George Michael -
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.
George Michael -
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.
George Michael -
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.
George Michael
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Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.
George Michael -
Stars are almost always people that want to make up for their own weaknesses by being loved by the public and I'm no exception to that.
George Michael -
I have definitely reached the same level as Madonna in terms of sales. I'm really pleased about that.
George Michael -
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.
George Michael