I'd been out to a lot of people since 19. I wish to God it had happened then. I don't think I… — George Michael Copy Share Image
I do want people to know that the songs that I wrote when I was with women were really about women. And… — George Michael Copy Share Image
I never minded being thought of as a pop star. People have always thought I wanted to be seen as a serious… — George Michael Copy Share Image
My music is some of the most honest music that's been released and I think that's why people buy it. — George Michael Copy Share Image
I don't go for safe options. Romantically, I go for people who are a pain in the ass. — George Michael Copy Share Image
I do think that Live Aid (1985) (TV) was a great thing, it focused people, I think it showed young kids the… — George Michael Copy Share Image
I'm perfectly happy to admit that insecurity. It doesn't bother me. It's there, just the same as the color of my eyes… — George Michael Copy Share Image
People have speculated about my sexuality for years and years. They are obviously interested in my sex life. Fine. Let them speculate.… — George Michael Copy Share Image
I've been approached many times by many different people, and most people want to do something that I write and produce, and… — George Michael Copy Share Image
Deep down, my ego always thought that I would outlast a lot of people that I was competing against. — George Michael Copy Share Image
When someone is always going to be there for you. I meet people like that all the time, but I have this… — George Michael Copy Share Image
The thing that's weird is that we thought it was funny. We expected people to get the joke - that we [with… — George Michael Copy Share Image
I don't want to look at other people my age in leather. Why would I put it on? — George Michael Copy Share Image
Yet ["One More Try" ] really seemed to connect with people, which is a wonderful thing and a marvelous coincidence. — George Michael Copy Share Image
Stars are almost always people that want to make up for their own weaknesses by being loved by the public and I'm… — George Michael Copy Share Image
The media has affected everybody's consciousness much more than most people will admit. — George Michael Copy Share Image
A lot of people like me, who've been around for years and years and years, only really lose it in their forties… — George Michael Copy Share Image
Everything was meant to wind people up [in Make It Big ]. I don't know why we had this great pleasure in… — George Michael Copy Share Image
With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people's self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition. — George Michael Copy Share Image
When Andrew [Ridgeley] first met my family, he heard my mom calling me "Yorgos." He just abbreviated it to Yog, and unfortunately it stuck.… — George Michael Copy Share Image
[My family] is one of the strongest families you're ever likely to see. — George Michael Copy Share Image
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… — George Michael Copy Share Image
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… — George Michael Copy Share Image
I find it difficult enough as it is to keep some kind of normality in my life. I enjoy this experience, but I don't… — George Michael Copy Share Image
I want to make a pop album - something more upbeat than my stuff was in the '90s. — George Michael Copy Share Image
If I can just live further from the spotlight I think that'll be better for all really. — George Michael Copy Share Image
Because of the media, the way the world is perceived is as a place where resources and time are running out. We're taught that… — George Michael Copy Share Image
Obviously, [Wham!] made me a lot more comfortable as a musician. I was very confident that I would become a successful musician, but I… — George Michael Copy Share Image
“I should have known better than to cheat a friend / And waste the chance that I'd been given / So I'm never gonna… — George Michael Copy Share Image
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… — George Michael Copy Share Image
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… — George Michael Copy Share Image