George Michael Quotes

I had my very first relationship at 27 because I really had not actually come to terms with my sexuality until I was 24.

As I became George professionally and everyone called me George, Yog became the name that people who knew me from before started to use. It became more valuable to me.

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.

I also think I could probably repeat the commercial success; whether I want to or not is a different matter. I think there is still better work inside me.

I don't consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying.

I can't talk about Kathy [Jeung] anymore, because she doesn't want me to talk about her, and I'm not even sure that it's an ongoing relationship.

When someone is always going to be there for you. I meet people like that all the time, but I have this unfortunate attraction to people I think I have to fight to become friends with.

It's the ones who resist that we most want to kiss, wouldn't you say?

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.

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.

I wouldn't marry until I was ready to have children.

I didn't expect to enter into tabloid trivia or anything like that. So I suspect my perspective and a lot of my ideas changed fairly drastically. It was also rather confusing.

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.

I'm the luckiest writer on earth.

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.

It's almost required with major artists that there's some duality. And I've got duality everywhere.

Celebrity and secrets don't go together. The bastards will get you in the end.

I've been very well remunerated for my talents over the years so I really don't need the public's money.

I define my sexuality in terms of the people that I love.

It's absolutely essential that we have the same safeguards that straight couples do. But I want more than a 50 percent chance of success. I don't want to emulate that.

We [with Andrew Ridgeley] didn't expect people to take it seriously. But naturally they did, and they thought we were a couple of wankers.

I have been taken for a ride a couple of times. I've been hurt by people who I've had a 90 percent possibility of being hurt by.

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.

Say what you want about America - thirteen bucks can still get you a hell of a lot of mice!

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)

It was like I had a curse on me. I couldn't believe how much God was piling on. There was so much death around me.

There's not another drug in life that I'm glad I took but grass.

My parents both came from very poor working-class families.

We [with Andrew Ridgeley] were getting so much attention and achieving such success. It never really bothered me.

I suppose romantically there are fantasies that can still be realized. But not professionally.

I thought I had fallen in love with a woman a couple of times. Then I fell in love with a man, and realised that none of those things had been love.

I was at Live Aid the original, looking like Rolf Harris for some reason. I had a really long beard that day for some reason.

Yeah, I'm going to need a leather jacket for when I'm on my hog and need to go into a controlled slide.

I suppose maybe if I had been an attractive child, I would have had less inclination to push my physical presence.

The truth is my love life has been a lot more turbulent than I have let on.

English people have seen me get through scandals.

I spent years growing up being told what my sexuality was.

I think for most of us, our biggest frailties are sexual.

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.

The word that pisses me off - "prepubescent."

The most common misconception people have had in the past is about my own control and calculation of my career.

I have two sisters. My father is Greek and comes from a family of seven. My mother is English and comes from a family of five.

It's really difficult trying to find the line where you don't piss anybody off.

There's something deep inside of me. There's someone else I've got to be.

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.

I can't bear Catholicism.

You can have my credit card, baby, but keep your red hot fingers off of my heart, lady.

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.

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.

Everything was meant to wind people up [in Make It Big ]. I don't know why we had this great pleasure in winding people up, but we really did think they would get the joke. And it backfired on us.