Top 249 Quotes & Sayings by George Michael - Page 2

I have to believe that somebody up there thinks I've still got some work to do.

No one wants to look wholesome at 21!

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

I'd like to say things are bound to get better, but I don't really believe it.

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.

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

Deep down, my ego always thought that I would outlast a lot of people that I was competing against.

I was brought up when media still kept totally away from violence when it came to children. I don't think it would have made me scared of violence, but I find it repulsive.

I know that I sound self-satisfied, and I know that I've got an ego, but I don't have an ego problem.

English people have seen me get through scandals.

I don't really have any traits that I deplore. I get annoyed with myself sometimes, but that's about it.

I went to prison, I paid my bill.

If you don't feel you're reaching something new, then don't do it.

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.

I never minded being thought of as a pop star. People have always thought I wanted to be seen as a serious musician, but I didn't, I just wanted people to know that I was absolutely serious about pop music.

I never really told my parents that I wanted to be a pop star or anything. They just knew that I was totally obsessed with music. Funnily enough, my father always used to say that he didn't think I could sing.

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.

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.

I'm 10-12 years into life as an out gay man, and I'm a different person. I think there are things about my journey that might be useful to other people, and coming up with a hit record on its own doesn't seem to be enough anymore.

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 used to believe that George Michael was a total actor. It was self-defeating, because it made me also feel fraudulent.

I spent the first half of my career being accused of being gay when I hadn't had anything like a gay relationship.

You can't have a child just to keep a relationship together, can you?

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

I'm lucky to be alive.

A lot of people like me, who've been around for years and years and years, only really lose it in their forties and fifties.

I don't consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying.

I owe my mother who I am, and my father my drive.

I had very little fear about it, but basically, my straight friends talked me out of it. I think they thought as I was bisexual, there was no need to. But it's amazing how much more complicated it became because I didn't come out in the early days. I often wonder if my career would have taken a different path if I had.

I am really not interested or excited by repeating former successes.

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.

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

There are so many things and so many aspects to gay life that I've discovered and so many things to write about. I have a new life, and I have a new take on dance music because of that life.

In the very early days of Wham! the attention felt great, but I do wonder how much freedom I gave away by trying to become something I wasn't.

There is no such thing as a reluctant star.

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.

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 write about my life.

I can't bear Catholicism.

I'm just not security-minded.

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.

There are things about my mum that I only realised later, things that make me admire her.

The press seemed to take some delight that I previously had a 'straight audience,' and set about trying to destroy that. And I think some men were frustrated that their girlfriends wouldn't let go of the idea that George Michael just hadn't found the 'right girl.'

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.

In terms of my work, I've never been reticent in terms of defining my sexuality. I write about my life.

I have the audience I deserve. Or at least I have the audience that represents the kind of people that I like.

I think my idea of a perfect romance is when two people really belong to each other.

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.

I don't go for safe options. Romantically, I go for people who are a pain in the ass.

Freedom. I will not give you up.

I seem to think that anything worth having in life has to be painful to attain.

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.

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

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.

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.

Change is a stranger you have yet to know.

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.

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.

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

Only time will set you free, just like me