George Michael
You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.Collection: Peace
I have no belief in The Bible or religion, but I think Armageddon was a lucky guess. I honestly think it's going to happen.Collection: Religion
The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.Collection: Business
There's no comfort in the truth, pain is all you'll find.Collection: Truth
You can't have a child just to keep a relationship together, can you?Collection: Relationship
I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.Collection: Music
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.Collection: Courage
The first sign of real obsession with music was with an old wind-up gramophone that mum had thrown out into the garage. My parents gave me three old 45s - two Supremes records and one Tom Jones record - and I used to come home from school literally every day, go out to the garage, wind this thing up, and play them.Collection: Home
I knew, regardless of anything else, singing in front of an orchestra was going to be inspirational. It would feed me.Collection: Inspirational
I had been obsessed with insects and creepy-crawlies: I used to get up at five o'clock in the morning and go out into this field behind our garden and collect insects before everyone else got up, and suddenly, all I wanted to know about was music. It just seemed a very, very strange thing.Collection: Morning
I have never thought about my sexuality being right or wrong. To me it has always been a case of finding the right person.
It's important to me that I should be free to express myself.
I'm not stupid enough to think that I can deal with another 10 or 15 years of major exposure. I think that is the ultimate tragedy of fame... People who are simply out of control, who are lost. I've seen so many of them, and I don't want to be another cliche.
I don't want to look at other people my age in leather. Why would I put it on?
I owe my mother who I am, and my father my drive.
If someone really wants to hurt you, they'll find a way whatever. I don't want to live my life worrying about it.
I would advise any gay person that being out in the real sense can never happen too soon.
My depression at the end of Wham! was because I was beginning to realise I was gay, not bi.
Anybody who fights for human rights or to make this world a better place. Nurses, doctors, teachers: these are the people who deserve the credit these days.
I have more love, success, and security than I could ever dream of.
I'm the luckiest writer on earth.
I'm not anti-American. I've lived with Kenny, a Texan, for six years.
The truth is my love life has been a lot more turbulent than I have let on.
I watch people who are not driven by creativity any more, and I think how dull it must be to produce the same kind of thing. If you don't feel you're reaching something new, then don't do it.
There is no such thing as a reluctant star.
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.
The fact I had my father as an adversary was such a powerful tool to work with. I subconsciously fought him to the degree that I drove me to be one of the most successful musician in the world.
When you are trying to express things with metaphors and much more subtlety, that's when you are doing yourself a disservice by making a video.
My ego is sated.
Apart from some of the videos and haircuts, I don't think I've made any wrong moves, ha ha!
I've achieved what every artist wants, which is that some of their work will outlive them.
It's almost required with major artists that there's some duality. And I've got duality everywhere.
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.
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 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.
Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.
I realised those things my ego needed - fame and success - were going to make me terribly unhappy. So I wrenched myself away from that. I had to. 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.
With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people's self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition.
Of course, I want to sell this record - there's no point making it otherwise.
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.
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.
I want to make a pop album - something more upbeat than my stuff was in the '90s.
I think the media is a real demon.
I think for most of us, our biggest frailties are sexual.
I spent years growing up being told what my sexuality was.
I left school at 17 and was a star by the time I was 18 - in certain parts of the world anyway.
I define my sexuality in terms of the people that I love.
Celebrity and secrets don't go together. The bastards will get you in the end.
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.
If I can just live further from the spotlight I think that'll be better for all really.