George Michael
In the years when HIV was a killer, any parent of an openly gay person was terrified. I knew my mother well enough that she would spend every day praying that I didn't come across that virus. She'd have worried like that.
I'd like to say things are bound to get better, but I don't really believe it.
It's strange. At some point in your career, the situation between yourself and the camera reverses. For a certain number of years, you court it and you need it, but ultimately, it needs you more, and it's a bit like a relationship. The minute that happens, it turns you off... and it does feel like it is taking something from you.
I'd been out to a lot of people since 19. I wish to God it had happened then. I don't think I would have the same career - my ego might not have been satisfied in some areas - but I think I would have been a happier man.
Be good to yourself 'cause nobody else has the power to make you happy.Collection: Inspirational
I've done too many stupid things for there not to be movies made about me when I'm dead, so I might as well write the script.Collection: Stupid
When I open my mouth and sing, the truth comes out. When I write, the truth comes out. I can't lie. That, I think, is one of the strongest elements of my music. When people talk about my writing as though I'm doing it from an accountant's perspective, it really pisses me off.Collection: Lying
Change is a stranger you have yet to know.Collection: Expression
It's really difficult trying to find the line where you don't piss anybody off.Collection: Trying
Me, I don’t want any children, I don’t want responsibility. I am gay, I smoke weed and I do exactly what I want in my life because of my talent. I represent an ideal which others have had to let go and they blame me for that. Especially men.Collection: Letting Go
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.Collection: Heart
I seem to think that anything worth having in life has to be painful to attain.Collection: Thinking
I just hope that I'll stay around musically for as long as I can. I love to think that I will still be satisfying myself and other people as a musician until the day I die.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Philosophy
Freedom. I will not give you up.Collection: Giving
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.Collection: Mean
There's something deep inside of me. There's someone else I've got to be.Collection: Deep Inside
I think my idea of a perfect romance is when two people really belong to each other.Collection: Thinking
Only time will set you free, just like meCollection: Like Me
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.Collection: Couple
50 percent of the people I perform for have come to scream at me and the other 50 percent have come to listen to the music.Collection: People
I think part of it has got to be compensation, yes, for the fact that when I was a kid, I wasn't particularly attractive. But at the same time I don't remember ever thinking, Oh, my God, I'm such a mess; I'm the ugliest sod in the class.Collection: Kids
My parents both came from very poor working-class families.Collection: Class
We [with Andrew Ridgeley] were getting so much attention and achieving such success. It never really bothered me.Collection: Attention
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.Collection: Long
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.Collection: Heaven
No fantasies, I don't think. Most of my fantasies have already been realized.Collection: Thinking
[Tabloids] could call you a child molester, I suppose, but they just go for the two things they think people are most likely to believe and that will most offend yourself and your popularity. My skin hardened to all that stuff years ago.Collection: Children
The Wham! thing was, as I said, very confusing, and much of our image was totally fake.Collection: Fake
[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.Collection: People
I didn't really think that it would be as easy as this. I did believe that the album [Faith] had a chance, because I though the material was strong enough, but things have just gone like clockwork. It's been incredible.Collection: Strong
You'd be surprised how young 25-year-old girls can sound when they want to scream. It isn't that young an audience, and it really frustrates me when I read the word "prepubescent" in my reviews. Even the ones that started following me with Wham! are in their late teens by now.Collection: Girl
[My father] was not a musical man.Collection: Father
I hate the actual traveling, but I like playing.Collection: Hate
I have no doubt that the music I release next will be better.Collection: Doubt
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.Collection: Play
I do think that Live Aid (1985) (TV) was a great thing, it focused people, I think it showed young kids the way in many respects and I think a lot of people are still inspired by what happened in the mid-Eighties.Collection: Kids
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.Collection: Splitting Up
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.Collection: Country
I'm never going to dance again. Guilty feet have got no rhythm.Collection: Feet
We always talked [with Andrew Ridgeley] about when it would happen - we always knew that I would go on to have a solo career.Collection: Careers
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.Collection: Mother
You couldn't release the single on its own, because no one wanted it.Collection: Release
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?Collection: Gay
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.Collection: Dog
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.Collection: Believe
There's not another drug in life that I'm glad I took but grass.Collection: Drug
You can have my credit card, baby, but keep your red hot fingers off of my heart, lady.Collection: Baby