Wham! Quotes
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I don't have joy in watching myself, whereas, actually, I quite like listening to my own music.
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I couldn't change anything without changing the end position, and I'm perfectly happy now. So whatever I feel in some sense may have been a mistake in the past is, in another sense, not a mistake, because it's left me here.
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It's quite simple: I managed it by doing away with Wham!'s duo image. Obviously, the way I looked changed and that helped a little, but I still have a very pop image. It's a very video-friendly image. I find it a lot more real. It's a lot closer to who I am than the whole Wham! thing.
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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 went to prison, I paid my bill.
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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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Mike Tyson has been accused of being a homosexual. What change do I have, you know? Everyone's in the same boat? Who could possibly care or believe anything after hearing that, really?
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I think the media is a real demon.
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Yet "One More Try" really seemed to connect with people, which is a wonderful thing and a marvelous coincidence.
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Teacher, there are things that I don't want to learn.
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I can't bear Catholicism.
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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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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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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 dad worked in a very typical first-generation immigrant fashion - 24 hours a day for years.
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I suppose maybe if I had been an attractive child, I would have had less inclination to push my physical presence.
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I truly believed that tonight would never happen, that I would never sing these songs to you again. But then I'm a fool, which you've probably worked out by now.
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Sex is natural, sex is good. Not everybody does it, but everybody should.
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I had my very first relationship at 27 because I really had not actually come to terms with my sexuality until I was 24.
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Me, I don’t want any children, I don’t want responsibility. I am gay, I smoke weed and I do exactly what I want in my life because of my talent. I represent an ideal which others have had to let go and they blame me for that. Especially men.
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I'm the luckiest writer on earth.
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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'm perfectly happy to admit that insecurity. It doesn't bother me. It's there, just the same as the color of my eyes is there. I'm never going to get rid of it. I'm not going to wake up one morning and really like the way I look, but as long as other people like the way I look, that's fine.
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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.