George Michael Quotes

I had to walk away from America, and say goodbye to the biggest part of my career, because I knew otherwise my demons would get the better of me.

We always talked [with Andrew Ridgeley] about when it would happen - we always knew that I would go on to have a solo career.

I lost my partner [Anselmo Feleppa] to HIV then it took about three years to grieve; then after that I lost my mother. I felt almost like I was cursed.

At a certain age I just stopped arguing. I realized that there was no way [my father] could see, because for him to approve of what I was doing, he would have to have some belief in me as a musician.

You couldn't release the single on its own, because no one wanted it.

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.

Still, the music was always there, and the lyrical capability was always threatening to show its head.

We both [me and Andrew Ridgeley ] knew that splitting up was the right thing to do, and there was no animosity between us at all.

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.

I don't really think that there is anyone in the modern pop business who I feel I want to spar with.

With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people's self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition.

[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.

I always knew I was attractive to girls just from the point of view that they liked me.

I just mean people who seem unavailable in the sense that they're not prepared to totally cling to anyone. I'm very attracted to people who are basically free spirits.

The thing that's weird is that we thought it was funny. We expected people to get the joke - that we [with Andrew Ridgeley] were two guys really making asses of ourselves.

I've been approached many times by many different people, and most people want to do something that I write and produce, and I'm just not into that.

I'm basically a control freak. It's not because I want to be. I'm not at all into the power play that's involved in it.

I want to make a pop album - something more upbeat than my stuff was in the '90s.

I find it difficult enough as it is to keep some kind of normality in my life. I enjoy this experience, but I don't know where I'm going to take my career.

I think I've gotten everything I want out of the last years, and I still feel like I have a lot of options open to me.

I'm looking back to a period of my life when I was badly hurt and then looking at another time when I felt I had things going for me again, so I suppose there is a theme [of the Faith album].

Freedom. I won't let you down.

No fantasies, I don't think. Most of my fantasies have already been realized.

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?

The Wham! thing was, as I said, very confusing, and much of our image was totally fake.

It's so easy to find someone who would walk around me like a shadow and do everything for me and never be tempted by other men, so obviously I'm not attracted by that type.

[My father] was not a musical man.

Things that I was writing for Wham! were a strong indication of what my future album would be like. But most people got so lost in our image and found it pretty repulsive.

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.

I hate the actual traveling, but I like playing.

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.

[Wham!] totally changed my life. It would be very difficult to know how it changed me as a person; you'd have to ask other people that.

I have no doubt that the music I release next will be better.

I'm never going to dance again. Guilty feet have got no rhythm.

I am a political person, though not with a big P.

I think marriage is a good thing for children, because it gives them a feeling of security.

I'm not a great collaborator, to tell the truth.

I thought [first girlfriend] was trying to make a fool out of me. Then I found out that she wasn't, and we went out. That's a very good example of how little confidence I had.

I went to prison, I paid my bill.

I find it too terrifying to go out in L.A.

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and its total crap to pretend its not

All mountain landscapes hold stories: the ones we read, the ones we dream, and the ones we create.-from the Editor's Note, The Alpinist (April 1, 2010)

I knew, regardless of anything else, singing in front of an orchestra was going to be inspirational. It would feed me.

Not many people are really that meticulous with what they do, I suppose, but I'm just a control freak and terribly afraid of failure or regret. I work very hard on these things.

It takes so much strength to say to your ego, 'You know what? You're going to keep me lonely, so I have to ignore you.'

You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.

I have more love, success, and security than I could ever dream of.