Wham! 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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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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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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English people have seen me get through scandals.
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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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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'm the luckiest writer on earth.
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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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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 really not interested or excited by repeating former successes.
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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'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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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 think my idea of a perfect romance is when two people really belong to each other.
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I'm not anti-American. I've lived with Kenny, a Texan, for six years.