George Michael quotes

I define my sexuality in terms of the people that I love. (George Michael)
I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.
George Michael
I think the media is a real demon.
George Michael
You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.
George Michael
I have to be honest here, I'm not really interested in selling records to people who are homophobic. I don't need the approval of people who don't approve of me.
George Michael
It's important to me that I should be free to express myself.
George Michael
I have the audience I deserve. Or at least I have the audience that represents the kind of people that I like.
George Michael
Your political system is actually too democratic. The fact that Americans vote on every bill and proposition can prolong bigotry indefinitely, especially where it is aimed at minority groups.
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Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.
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I left school at 17 and was a star by the time I was 18 - in certain parts of the world anyway.
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I would advise any gay person that being out in the real sense can never happen too soon. (George Michael)
Celebrity and secrets don't go together. The bastards will get you in the end.
George Michael
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.
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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.
George Michael
I spent years growing up being told what my sexuality was.
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I've never done anything so political before. I've spent years shouting my mouth off about serious issues over dinner tables but never really had the confidence to express my views in a song.
George Michael
I want to make a pop album - something more upbeat than my stuff was in the '90s.
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I think for most of us, our biggest frailties are sexual.
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I spent the first half of my career being accused of being gay when I hadn't had anything like a gay relationship. So I spent my years growing up being told what my sexuality was really- which was kind of confusing.
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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
I'm not anti-American. I've lived with Kenny, a Texan, for six years. (George Michael)
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.
George Michael
The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.
George Michael
Me, I don't want any children, I don't want responsibility. I am gay, I smoke weed and I do exactly what I want in my life because of my talent. I represent an ideal which others have had to let go and they blame me for that. Especially men.
George Michael
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 you have to grab what you can before it's gone. It's almost as if there isn't time for compassion.
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