George Michael Quotes - Page 6

I can't bear Catholicism.

I define my sexuality in terms of the people that I love.

You couldn't release the single on its own, because no one wanted it.

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?

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

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.

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.

I've been very well remunerated for my talents over the years so I really don't need the public's money.

My American gay audience have continued to dance and sing to the music I make in a way that straight Americans haven't. I am grateful to them for that.

The truth is my love life has been a lot more turbulent than I have let on.

There's not another drug in life that I'm glad I took but grass.

You can have my credit card, baby, but keep your red hot fingers off of my heart, lady.

I had surprisingly little money when Wham! ended. You'd be very surprised how little, really, because you don't realize how much money it takes to maintain a band.

When Andrew [Ridgeley] first met my family, he heard my mom calling me "Yorgos." He just abbreviated it to Yog, and unfortunately it stuck. I hated it is a teenager. It was not the most glamorous-sounding name in the world.

Yeah, I'm going to need a leather jacket for when I'm on my hog and need to go into a controlled slide.

It's absolutely essential that we have the same safeguards that straight couples do. But I want more than a 50 percent chance of success. I don't want to emulate that.

Things that I was writing for Wham! were a strong indication of what my future album would be like. But most people got so lost in our image and found it pretty repulsive.

Mike Tyson has been accused of being a homosexual. What change do I have, you know? Everyone's in the same boat? Who could possibly care or believe anything after hearing that, really?

The main downside was that it [fame] happened so quickly and I didn't have time to establish what kind of person I wanted to be.

I think I've gotten everything I want out of the last years, and I still feel like I have a lot of options open to me.

I'm looking back to a period of my life when I was badly hurt and then looking at another time when I felt I had things going for me again, so I suppose there is a theme [of the Faith album].

A lot of people felt that I was just tying that into the "I Want Your Sex" theme because of the AIDS thing and the prospect of the song's being banned. I thought it was a relevant point to make because of the AIDS thing. I wanted to write a song which sounded dirty but which was applicable to someone that I really cared about. That was my point.

I just feel "One More Try" is better lyrically. "Careless Whisper" was written when I was 17 years old, and I had not really experienced anything that strong in my life, so it was a bit precocious.

People have speculated about my sexuality for years and years. They are obviously interested in my sex life. Fine. Let them speculate. I'm not going to put them right one way or the other.

I never had a moral problem with being gay.