George Michael
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.Collection: Games
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.Collection: Successful
I was supposed to be a real Thatcherite. Just by dint of being a first-generation immigrant and having not had money, and then suddenly having it - and getting on planes and going to Ibiza and sitting around in thongs. But actually nothing I was writing or doing was even vaguely Thatcherite.Collection: Real
I get along really well with [my father] now, but I had a terrible time with him in my teenage years. All we did was scream at each other, and when we weren't screaming at each other, we just wouldn't talk to each other.Collection: Teenage
I'm a perfectionist. It's a big pain in the ass and it takes a lot of my time, but it really is going well and I have to do my own things.Collection: Pain
This is a very fickle business. It's really about how much you value the other things in your life. I still value too many other things more than I do fame.Collection: Fickle
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.Collection: Couple
I suppose maybe if I had been an attractive child, I would have had less inclination to push my physical presence.Collection: Children
[Music From the Edge of Heaven] wasn't really an album at all. The band had made the decision to release an LP and then split up. We wanted to go out with a bang in Britain and the rest of the world by having a single that was four songs, not just one song. But we couldn't do that over here because we couldn't release a single without an album.Collection: Song
I couldn't change anything without changing the end position, and I'm perfectly happy now. So whatever I feel in some sense may have been a mistake in the past is, in another sense, not a mistake, because it's left me here.Collection: Mistake
I have definitely reached the same level as Madonna in terms of sales. I'm really pleased about that.Collection: Levels
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.Collection: Writing
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.Collection: Taken
The only difficulty is that I'm playing to two audiences, and it's too bad the noise detracts from the show, because it's a great show. I've seen my own self out there, and it's a very good musical show. Sometimes the show gets lost in the hysteria and sometimes it doesn't.Collection: Self
Playing with Queen was the biggest moment of my career. It was like living a childhood fantasy.Collection: Queens
It's an incredibly limited sphere those tabloids have, isn't it? Basically, they can accuse people of being gay and they can accuse people of taking drugs, but they can't get any more sensational without entering into the realm of incredibly bad taste.Collection: Gay
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.Collection: Fighting
I'm perfectly happy to admit that insecurity. It doesn't bother me. It's there, just the same as the color of my eyes is there. I'm never going to get rid of it. I'm not going to wake up one morning and really like the way I look, but as long as other people like the way I look, that's fine.Collection: Morning
Take back your picture in a frame. Take back your singing in the rain. I just hope you understand sometimes the clothes do not make the man.Collection: Rain
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.Collection: Thinking
I truly believed that tonight would never happen, that I would never sing these songs to you again. But then I'm a fool, which you've probably worked out by now.Collection: Song
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.Collection: Careers
My dad worked in a very typical first-generation immigrant fashion - 24 hours a day for years.Collection: Fashion
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.Collection: Mother
[My father] was more than apprehensive. He didn't think I stood a chance in hell. He had no confidence in me whatsoever and was convinced that I was going to be coming to him for money when I was 40. We argued about it constantly.Collection: Father
[My mother] is much more musical, and by the time I started writing songs - by the time I was about 17 - she started to believe in me, musically.Collection: Mother
I always knew I was attractive to girls just from the point of view that they liked me.Collection: Girl
I don't go for safe options. Romantically, I go for people who are a pain in the ass.Collection: Pain
When you shake you ass, they notice fast. And some mistakes were built to last.Collection: Art
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.Collection: Thinking
"Yog" is an abbreviation - my real name is Yorgos, which is Greek for George.Collection: Real
Teacher, there are things that I don't want to learn.Collection: Teacher
I guess I was about 15. I wore glasses at the time, and I remember [first girlfriend] sitting on the floor at a party, one of those school parties where everyone is getting off with each other. I remember her taking my glasses off and saying something very complimentary about my eyes or whatever, and I was just so pissed off because I was convinced she was taking the piss out of me.Collection: Girlfriend
I mean, it is the perfect situation to really love someone to death and to want to rip their clothes off at the same time, isn't it?Collection: Rip
There are very few things in my life that I can't have if I want them. So when I see something that I can't have, immediately I'm obsessed by it.Collection: Want
My music is some of the most honest music that's been released and I think that's why people buy it.Collection: Thinking
I don't really feel I deserve something if I haven't had to fight for it. It's not a conscious attitude, and it's stupid and wrong. Sometimes you do deserve things without having to put yourself through agony.Collection: Attitude
I suppose romantically there are fantasies that can still be realized. But not professionally.Collection: Fantasy
Sex is natural, sex is good/Not everybody does it, but everybody shouldCollection: Sex
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.Collection: Names
I can't believe that I've written my best work yet. If I believed that, then I wouldn't bother releasing music anymore.Collection: Believe
I got to say hello to Snoop Dogg. I got to, I was being barged out of the way by his bodyguards but I got to say hello to him which was cool.Collection: Way
George was the easy part. As for Michael, I had always liked the name, and my father's brother is named Michael. I thought it was a good idea because there are a lot of Greeks in England with the second name of Michael; as a child I had a Greek friend whose second name was Michael. It was like getting the name that I wanted without having to get rid of the Greek element.Collection: Brother
It's the ones who resist that we most want to kiss, wouldn't you say?Collection: Broken Heart
It’s the ones who resist that we most want to kiss, wouldn’t you say?Collection: Broken Heart