-
Because of the media, the way the world is perceived is as a place where resources and time are running out. We're taught that you have to grab what you can before it's gone. It's almost as if there isn't time for compassion.
George Michael -
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.
George Michael
-
I don't consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying.
George Michael -
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.
George Michael -
The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.
George Michael -
Playing with Queen was the biggest moment of my career. It was like living a childhood fantasy.
George Michael -
I just feel "One More Try" is better lyrically. "Careless Whisper" was written when I was 17 years old, and I had not really experienced anything that strong in my life, so it was a bit precocious.
George Michael -
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?
George Michael
-
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.
George Michael -
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.
George Michael -
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.
George Michael -
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.
George Michael -
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.
George Michael -
There's not another drug in life that I'm glad I took but grass.
George Michael
-
I'm the luckiest writer on earth.
George Michael -
I'm never going to dance again. Guilty feet have got no rhythm.
George Michael -
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.
George Michael -
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.
George Michael -
It does bother me when they tabloids drag friends of mine into it and talk about them and lie about them. My friends have no part in it; they're not celebrities, so why should they have to accept the downside of celebrity? That worries me for a bit.
George Michael -
I went through a long period where I was afraid of doing things I wanted to do, and you get your courage back, which is what's important.
George Michael
-
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.
George Michael -
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.
George Michael -
Obviously, Wham! made me a lot more comfortable as a musician. I was very confident that I would become a successful musician, but I had no idea I would be a celebrity.
George Michael -
In the rest of the world we had had two albums that were successful, so those two albums' hits and this new four-single package made up an album called Wham! The Final, which is basically greatest hits. We couldn't have done a greatest hits over here, because we'd only done one hit album.
George Michael