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" 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. "

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" It's strange. At some point in your career, the situation between yourself and the camera reverses. For a certain number of years, you court it and you need it, but ultimately, it needs you more, and it's a bit like a relationship. The minute that happens, it turns you off... and it does feel like it is taking something from you. "

" I have never felt any ethnic connection between the Greeks and me other than how hairy I am. "

" 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. "

" I never really told my parents that I wanted to be a pop star or anything. They just knew that I was totally obsessed with music. Funnily enough, my father always used to say that he didn't think I could sing. "

" I have to believe that somebody up there thinks I've still got some work to do. "

" 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 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. "

" I'm lucky to be alive. "

" For some strange reason, my gay life didn't get easier when I came out. Quite the opposite happened, really. "

" The press seemed to take some delight that I previously had a 'straight audience,' and set about trying to destroy that. And I think some men were frustrated that their girlfriends wouldn't let go of the idea that George Michael just hadn't found the 'right girl.' "

" I know that I sound self-satisfied, and I know that I've got an ego, but I don't have an ego problem. "

" I've achieved what every artist wants, which is that some of their work will outlive them. "

" Not many people are really that meticulous with what they do, I suppose, but I'm just a control freak and terribly afraid of failure or regret. I work very hard on these things. "

" 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. "

" The fact I had my father as an adversary was such a powerful tool to work with. I subconsciously fought him to the degree that I drove me to be one of the most successful musician in the world. "

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

" You can't have a child just to keep a relationship together, can you? "

" 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. "

" I left school at 17 and was a star by the time I was 18 - in certain parts of the world anyway. "

" I went to prison, I paid my bill. "

" English people have seen me get through scandals. "

" I can't bear Catholicism. "

" I do want people to know that the songs that I wrote when I was with women were really about women. And the songs that I've written since have been fairly obvious about men. "

" In terms of my work, I've never been reticent in terms of defining my sexuality. I write about my life. "

" I mean, I've done different things at different times that I shouldn't have done, once or twice, you know. "

" I think for most of us, our biggest frailties are sexual. "

" In the years when HIV was a killer, any parent of an openly gay person was terrified. I knew my mother well enough that she would spend every day praying that I didn't come across that virus. She'd have worried like that. "

" Of course, I want to sell this record - there's no point making it otherwise. "

" 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. "

" I'm not stupid enough to think that I can deal with another 10 or 15 years of major exposure. I think that is the ultimate tragedy of fame... People who are simply out of control, who are lost. I've seen so many of them, and I don't want to be another cliche. "