George Michael Quotes - Page 7

I think part of it has got to be compensation, yes, for the fact that when I was a kid, I wasn't particularly attractive. But at the same time I don't remember ever thinking, Oh, my God, I'm such a mess; I'm the ugliest sod in the class.

My parents both came from very poor working-class families.

We [with Andrew Ridgeley] were getting so much attention and achieving such success. It never really bothered me.

I was at Live Aid the original, looking like Rolf Harris for some reason. I had a really long beard that day for some reason.

We had to create an album where there wasn't one. I never listen to that album [ Music From the Edge of Heaven] because it wasn't an album.

No fantasies, I don't think. Most of my fantasies have already been realized.

[Wham!] totally changed my life. It would be very difficult to know how it changed me as a person; you'd have to ask other people that.

[Tabloids] could call you a child molester, I suppose, but they just go for the two things they think people are most likely to believe and that will most offend yourself and your popularity. My skin hardened to all that stuff years ago.

You'd be surprised how young 25-year-old girls can sound when they want to scream. It isn't that young an audience, and it really frustrates me when I read the word "prepubescent" in my reviews. Even the ones that started following me with Wham! are in their late teens by now.

The Wham! thing was, as I said, very confusing, and much of our image was totally fake.

I hate the actual traveling, but I like playing.

[My father] was not a musical man.

I didn't really think that it would be as easy as this. I did believe that the album [Faith] had a chance, because I though the material was strong enough, but things have just gone like clockwork. It's been incredible.

I have no doubt that the music I release next will be better.

I'm basically a control freak. It's not because I want to be. I'm not at all into the power play that's involved in it.

English people have seen me get through scandals.

I do think that Live Aid (1985) (TV) was a great thing, it focused people, I think it showed young kids the way in many respects and I think a lot of people are still inspired by what happened in the mid-Eighties.

We both [me and Andrew Ridgeley ] knew that splitting up was the right thing to do, and there was no animosity between us at all.

Marriage still means a lot more in the country I come from than it does here. I don't think there's anything to be gained by it for the couple. But for children I think it's an important thing.

I had to walk away from America, and say goodbye to the biggest part of my career, because I knew otherwise my demons would get the better of me.

I'm never going to dance again. Guilty feet have got no rhythm.

We always talked [with Andrew Ridgeley] about when it would happen - we always knew that I would go on to have a solo career.

I'm the luckiest writer on earth.

I lost my partner [Anselmo Feleppa] to HIV then it took about three years to grieve; then after that I lost my mother. I felt almost like I was cursed.

I'm not anti-American. I've lived with Kenny, a Texan, for six years.