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" I don't have joy in watching myself, whereas, actually, I quite like listening to my own music. "
George Michael
My Own
Myself
Music
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" 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 gave me three old 45s - two Supremes records and one Tom Jones record - and I used to come home from school literally every day, go out to the garage, wind this thing up, and play them. "
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Wind
Day
Home
" There are things about my mum that I only realised later, things that make me admire her. "
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Admire
Things
Me
" I'm surprised that I've survived my own dysfunction, really. "
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Survived
My Own
Own
" 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. "
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Years
People
Loyal
" I know I have a very self-destructive tendency since my mother died, I have got to be honest. "
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Got
Honest
Know
" I knew, regardless of anything else, singing in front of an orchestra was going to be inspirational. It would feed me. "
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Inspirational
Singing
Orchestra
" My depression at the end of Wham! was because I was beginning to realise I was gay, not bi. "
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Because
Beginning
" I have never felt any ethnic connection between the Greeks and me other than how hairy I am. "
George Michael
How
Me
I Am
" 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. "
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Trying
Early
Freedom
" I write about my life. "
George Michael
Write
My Life
Life
" 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. "
George Michael
Done
Charity
Musicians
" I find it too terrifying to go out in L.A. "
George Michael
Too
Go
Terrifying
" In terms of my work, I've never been reticent in terms of defining my sexuality. I write about my life. "
George Michael
My Life
Work
Life
" The truth is my love life has been a lot more turbulent than I have let on. "
George Michael
Love Life
Life
Love
" I'm the luckiest writer on earth. "
George Michael
Luckiest
Writer
Earth
" I'm just not security-minded. "
George Michael
Just
" It's important to me that I should be free to express myself. "
George Michael
Should
Free
Important
" I'm not anti-American. I've lived with Kenny, a Texan, for six years. "
George Michael
Texan
Years
Anti-American
" 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. "
George Michael
Me
Like
Years
" I went to prison, I paid my bill. "
George Michael
Prison
Paid
Bill
" It's only when the kids are in their late twenties that families really face up to what they are. "
George Michael
Late
Only
Face
" I had very little fear about it, but basically, my straight friends talked me out of it. I think they thought as I was bisexual, there was no need to. But it's amazing how much more complicated it became because I didn't come out in the early days. I often wonder if my career would have taken a different path if I had. "
George Michael
Think
Amazing
Fear
" 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. "
George Michael
Men
Know
Obvious
" My ego is sated. "
George Michael
Ego
" I really have no plans for any kind of career in TV or anything, but if I wanted to become good at it, I could. But I don't really think it's in the cards. "
George Michael
Think
Kind
Career
" I have got other interests than just making music. I would like to follow those interests through. "
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Like
Just
Follow
" Anybody who fights for human rights or to make this world a better place. Nurses, doctors, teachers: these are the people who deserve the credit these days. "
George Michael
People
Place
World
" 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. "
George Michael
Time
Place
World
" I would advise any gay person that being out in the real sense can never happen too soon. "
George Michael
Never
Sense
Gay