Wham! Quotes
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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.
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I'm not a great collaborator, to tell the truth.
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I don't consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying.
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No fantasies, I don't think. Most of my fantasies have already been realized.
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I'm never going to dance again. Guilty feet have got no rhythm.
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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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Change is a stranger you have yet to know.
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I hate the actual traveling, but I like playing.
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Playing with Queen was the biggest moment of my career. It was like living a childhood fantasy.
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I think the media is a real demon.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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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The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.
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Freedom. I will not give you up.
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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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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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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.
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There's not another drug in life that I'm glad I took but grass.
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For a while I took Ecstacy when it was not very available over here. I took it simply because it made me feel that everything was wonderful.
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This was absolutely an attack on British Prime Minister Tony Blair, principally, and the perspective which is really predominant in Europe right now that he's not questioning enough of Mr. Bush's policies.