George Michael Quotes - Page 5

I would advise any gay person that being out in the real sense can never happen too soon.

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.

I had my very first relationship at 27 because I really had not actually come to terms with my sexuality until I was 24.

I also think I could probably repeat the commercial success; whether I want to or not is a different matter. I think there is still better work inside me.

For a while I took Ecstacy when it was not very available over here. I took it simply because it made me feel that everything was wonderful.

Freedom. I won't let you down.

The word that pisses me off - "prepubescent."

By the time I was in my early teens, we were able to move into a much more middle-class area. I had a comfortable adolescence.

Both of us knew the band had run its course. We were both unhappy doing it, but I think the way Andrew [Ridgeley] was being treated as the less important half of the duo had finally taken its toll on him.

I wouldn't marry until I was ready to have children.

The most common misconception people have had in the past is about my own control and calculation of my career.

Basically I see that song as a bunch of images which I threw together to represent the fact that I was seeing one girl and then I started seeing another, and it was just the guilt in between those two periods. The ballads I've written since have been about things that really hurt me.

Say what you want about America - thirteen bucks can still get you a hell of a lot of mice!

Still, the music was always there, and the lyrical capability was always threatening to show its head.

It does bother me when they [tabloids] drag friends of mine into it and talk about them and lie about them. My friends have no part in it; they're not celebrities, so why should they have to accept the downside of celebrity? That worries me for a bit.

I don't have joy in watching myself, whereas, actually, I quite like listening to my own music.

It's quite simple: I managed it by doing away with Wham!'s duo image. Obviously, the way I looked changed and that helped a little, but I still have a very pop image. It's a very video-friendly image. I find it a lot more real. It's a lot closer to who I am than the whole Wham! thing.

I really have no plans for any kind of career in TV or anything, but if I wanted to become good at it, I could. But I don't really think it's in the cards.

The thing that's weird is that we thought it was funny. We expected people to get the joke - that we [with Andrew Ridgeley] were two guys really making asses of ourselves.

Andrew [Ridgeley] and I had demoed a couple of our songs very cheaply, and we weren't expecting any kind of record deal. We just walked around with our demo tape, trying to find someone to give us the money to demo properly. Instead of that, we got a record contract. It was just an incredibly lucky break.

I probably owe an apology to fans that have been supportive and have not wanted to believe any of this was true. It takes a little bit of the sheen off of the mystique.

I hope it really comes off. It would make my dad really proud." (about the song for the coming 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, Greece)

It was a very lucky set of incidents that led to Wham! getting a record contract - although we weren't Wham! when we got the record contract. We were nothing; we were just two friends who had written a few songs.

Stupid cupid keeps on calling me, but I see nothing in his eyes. I miss my babe

I didn't expect to enter into tabloid trivia or anything like that. So I suspect my perspective and a lot of my ideas changed fairly drastically. It was also rather confusing.