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" I don't want to look at other people my age in leather. Why would I put it on? "
George Michael
Look
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" It's only when the kids are in their late twenties that families really face up to what they are. "
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" I watch people who are not driven by creativity any more, and I think how dull it must be to produce the same kind of thing. If you don't feel you're reaching something new, then don't do it. "
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" For some strange reason, my gay life didn't get easier when I came out. Quite the opposite happened, really. "
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" 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. "
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" 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.' "
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" I have never thought about my sexuality being right or wrong. To me it has always been a case of finding the right person. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" The media has affected everybody's consciousness much more than most people will admit. "
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" 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 field behind our garden and collect insects before everyone else got up, and suddenly, all I wanted to know about was music. It just seemed a very, very strange thing. "
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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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" Apart from some of the videos and haircuts, I don't think I've made any wrong moves, ha ha! "
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" I'm just not security-minded. "
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" 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. "
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" The '90s were a bit of a disaster for me in so many ways. On a personal level, I don't think I could have toured. Also, I had some physical problems with my back that are now sorted and I just wasn't in the right state of mind. "
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" I want to make a pop album - something more upbeat than my stuff was in the '90s. "
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" 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. "
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" There are so many things and so many aspects to gay life that I've discovered and so many things to write about. I have a new life, and I have a new take on dance music because of that life. "
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