Wham! Quotes
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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.
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I want the people who came to listen to have a good time as well. So it's a matter of playing a control game when all I really want to do is go out there and sing.
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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.
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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.
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I hate the actual traveling, but I like playing.
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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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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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My dad worked in a very typical first-generation immigrant fashion - 24 hours a day for years.
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I'm never going to dance again. Guilty feet have got no rhythm.
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This is a very fickle business. It's really about how much you value the other things in your life. I still value too many other things more than I do fame.
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I've been very well remunerated for my talents over the years so I really don't need the public's money.
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Change is a stranger you have yet to know.
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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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Basically I see that song as a bunch of images which I threw together to represent the fact that I was seeing one girl and then I started seeing another, and it was just the guilt in between those two periods. The ballads I've written since have been about things that really hurt me.
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I've done too many stupid things for there not to be movies made about me when I'm dead, so I might as well write the script.
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My family is one of the strongest families you're ever likely to see.
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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 don't like having my picture taken and I don't like looking at myself because I don't particularly like what I see.
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I had surprisingly little money when Wham! ended. You'd be very surprised how little, really, because you don't realize how much money it takes to maintain a band.
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I don't consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying.
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This stuff marijuana keeps me sane and happy. I'd say it's a great drug - but obviously it's not very healthy.
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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.
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I'm not a great collaborator, to tell the truth.
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I have to believe that somebody up there thinks I've still got some work to do.