George Michael Quotes - Page 2

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

There's something deep inside of me. There's someone else I've got to be.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

"Yog" is an abbreviation - my real name is Yorgos, which is Greek for George.

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

Teacher, there are things that I don't want to learn.

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

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.

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.

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?

Sex is natural, sex is good/Not everybody does it, but everybody should

My music is some of the most honest music that's been released and I think that's why people buy it.

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.

I can't believe that I've written my best work yet. If I believed that, then I wouldn't bother releasing music anymore.

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.

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.

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.

It's almost required with major artists that there's some duality. And I've got duality everywhere.

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.

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.