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I suppose maybe if I had been an attractive child, I would have had less inclination to push my physical presence.
I spent the first half of my career being accused of being gay when I hadn't had anything like a gay relationship.
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.
Yet ["One More Try" ] really seemed to connect with people, which is a wonderful thing and a marvelous coincidence.
I don't like having my picture taken and I don't like looking at myself because I don't particularly like what I see.
I knew, regardless of anything else, singing in front of an orchestra was going to be inspirational. It would feed me.
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 can't believe that I've written my best work yet. If I believed that, then I wouldn't bother releasing music anymore.
It takes so much strength to say to your ego, 'You know what? You're going to keep me lonely, so I have to ignore you.'
You can't imagine what it's like playing to people who have been loyal to you for 25 years and haven't seen you for 15.
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.
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 used to believe that George Michael was a total actor. It was self-defeating, because it made me also feel fraudulent.
I have never thought about my sexuality being right or wrong. To me it has always been a case of finding the right person.
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.
I have no belief in The Bible or religion, but I think Armageddon was a lucky guess. I honestly think it's going to happen.
With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people's self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition.
A lot of people like me, who've been around for years and years and years, only really lose it in their forties and fifties.
I've done too many stupid things for there not to be movies made about me when I'm dead, so I might as well write the script.
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 always talked [with Andrew Ridgeley] about when it would happen - we always knew that I would go on to have a solo career.
I have two sisters. My father is Greek and comes from a family of seven. My mother is English and comes from a family of five.
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.
I have been taken for a ride a couple of times. I've been hurt by people who I've had a 90 percent possibility of being hurt by.
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.
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.
People, you can never change the way they feel. Better let them do what they will. For they will, if you let them, steal your heart.
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?
Even though it's become a really cliched thing to see musicians working for charity, it's still effective and it still has to be done.
Stars are almost always people that want to make up for their own weaknesses by being loved by the public and I'm no exception to that.
[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.
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.
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.
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 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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
I try very hard to thank my lucky stars and keep it all in proportion and perspective, but it can be very tiring having a smiley face all day.
In the very early days of Wham! the attention felt great, but I do wonder how much freedom I gave away by trying to become something I wasn't.
When you are trying to express things with metaphors and much more subtlety, that's when you are doing yourself a disservice by making a video.
Is my body a temple, or is my life a temple? I'm definitely in the latter category, and I think my life has been better since thinking that way.
Without despair, we will share, and the joys of caring will not be erased. What has been, must never end, the joys of caring will not be replace.
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.
[My mother] is much more musical, and by the time I started writing songs - by the time I was about 17 - she started to believe in me, musically.
I can't talk about Kathy [Jeung] anymore, because she doesn't want me to talk about her, and I'm not even sure that it's an ongoing relationship.
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've been approached many times by many different people, and most people want to do something that I write and produce, and I'm just not into that.
I thought I had fallen in love with a woman a couple of times. Then I fell in love with a man, and realised that none of those things had been love.