George Michael Quotes

It's only when the kids are in their late twenties that families really face up to what they are.

Be good to yourself 'cause nobody else has the power to make you happy.

I do want people to know that the songs that I wrote when I was with women were really about women. And the songs that I've written since have been fairly obvious about men.

All we have to see is that I don't belong to you, and you don't belong to me.

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

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.

English people have seen me get through scandals.

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

I don't want to look at other people my age in leather. Why would I put it on?

There's no comfort in the truth, pain is all you'll find.

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 really have no plans for any kind of career in TV or anything, but if I wanted to become good at it, I could. But I don't really think it's in the cards.

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

Stars are almost always people that want to make up for their own weaknesses by being loved by the public and I'm no exception to that.

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.

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

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. (about his latest song Shoot the Dog)

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

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

I'm the luckiest writer on earth.

I write about my life.

I have never felt any ethnic connection between the Greeks and me other than how hairy I am.

I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.

I have never thought about my sexuality being right or wrong. To me it has always been a case of finding the right person.

I've always been the porky boy in my head.

My American gay audience have continued to dance and sing to the music I make in a way that straight Americans haven't. I am grateful to them for that.

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

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

People, you can never change the way they feel. Better let them do what they will. For they will, if you let them, steal your heart.

I can't bear Catholicism.

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

I have got other interests than just making music. I would like to follow those interests through.

I left school at 17 and was a star by the time I was 18 - in certain parts of the world anyway.

Your political system is actually too democratic. The fact that Americans vote on every bill and proposition can prolong bigotry indefinitely, especially where it is aimed at minority groups.

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)

Only time will set you free, just like me

Satire is used for political purposes all the time, but obviously there's a time and a place. I think in the current climate, it can be very difficult to speak your mind, but sometimes, I believe, we're all in danger and I think this discussion needs to be widened.

Well it looks like the road to heaven
But it feels like the road to hell
When I knew which side my bread was buttered
I took the knife as well
Posing for another picture
Everybody's got to sell
But when you shake your ass
They notice fast
And some mistakes were built to last.

My depression at the end of Wham! was because I was beginning to realise I was gay, not bi.

The media has affected everybody's consciousness much more than most people will admit.

Without despair, we will share, and the joys of caring will not be erased. What has been, must never end, the joys of caring will not be replace.

I've wondered what my sexuality might be, but I've never wondered whether it was acceptable or not. Anyway, who really cares whether I'm gay or straight?

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.

There is no comfort in the truth , pain is all you find.

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.

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've achieved what every artist wants, which is that some of their work will outlive them.

Change is a stranger you have yet to know.

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

The '90s were a bit of a disaster for me in so many ways. On a personal level, I don't think I could have toured. Also, I had some physical problems with my back that are now sorted and I just wasn't in the right state of mind.

So you scream from behind your door, say what's mine is mine, and not yours
I may have too much, but I'll take my chances
Cause God's stopped keeping score
And you cling to the things they sold you
Didn't you cover your eyes when they told you that he can't come back
Cause he has no children to come back for
It so hard to learn, there's so much to hate
Hanging on to hope when there is no hope to speak of
And the wounded skies above say it's much too late
So maybe we should all be praying for time

I'm just not security-minded.

Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.

I'm lucky to be alive.

I would advise any gay person that being out in the real sense can never happen too soon.

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

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

I went to prison, I paid my bill.

It's important to me that I should be free to express myself.

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

I think the media is a real demon.

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

I've written a whole body of work that I'm incredibly proud of.