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" I have never felt any ethnic connection between the Greeks and me other than how hairy I am. "
George Michael
How
Me
I Am
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" If I can just live further from the spotlight I think that'll be better for all really. "
George Michael
Live
I Can
Better
" 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
Same
Chance
More
" I don't want to look at other people my age in leather. Why would I put it on? "
George Michael
Look
Leather
Age
" 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'd like to say things are bound to get better, but I don't really believe it. "
George Michael
Get
Better
Believe
" 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. "
George Michael
Him
Father
Powerful
" 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. "
George Michael
Failure
Regret
People
" There are things about my mum that I only realised later, things that make me admire her. "
George Michael
Admire
Things
Me
" I'm 10-12 years into life as an out gay man, and I'm a different person. I think there are things about my journey that might be useful to other people, and coming up with a hit record on its own doesn't seem to be enough anymore. "
George Michael
Life
Man
People
" 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. "
George Michael
Wind
Day
Home
" I think for most of us, our biggest frailties are sexual. "
George Michael
Think
Us
I Think
" I would advise any gay person that being out in the real sense can never happen too soon. "
George Michael
Never
Sense
Gay
" No one wants to look wholesome at 21! "
George Michael
Wholesome
Look
Wants
" I have got other interests than just making music. I would like to follow those interests through. "
George Michael
Like
Just
Follow
" 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. "
George Michael
Stars
Lucky
Face
" 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
" 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. "
George Michael
I Am
Music
Grateful
" My depression at the end of Wham! was because I was beginning to realise I was gay, not bi. "
George Michael
Depression
Because
Beginning
" 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. "
George Michael
Trying
Early
Freedom
" I'm lucky to be alive. "
George Michael
Lucky
Alive
" For some strange reason, my gay life didn't get easier when I came out. Quite the opposite happened, really. "
George Michael
Strange
Reason
Opposite
" My ego is sated. "
George Michael
Ego
" If you don't feel you're reaching something new, then don't do it. "
George Michael
Then
You
Something
" I used to believe that George Michael was a total actor. It was self-defeating, because it made me also feel fraudulent. "
George Michael
Actor
Because
Believe
" I was brought up when media still kept totally away from violence when it came to children. I don't think it would have made me scared of violence, but I find it repulsive. "
George Michael
Up
Media
Me
" I'm not anti-American. I've lived with Kenny, a Texan, for six years. "
George Michael
Texan
Years
Anti-American
" Celebrity and secrets don't go together. The bastards will get you in the end. "
George Michael
End
You
Together
" I owe my mother who I am, and my father my drive. "
George Michael
Father
Drive
I Am
" I can't bear Catholicism. "
George Michael
Bear
Catholicism
" I don't consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying. "
George Michael
American
Government
Bullying