Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I want to make a pop album - something more upbeat than my stuff was in the '90s. "

Related Quotes:

" I am a political person, though not with a big P. "

" I'm surprised that I've survived my own dysfunction, really. "

" If someone really wants to hurt you, they'll find a way whatever. I don't want to live my life worrying about it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Stars are almost always people that want to make up for their own weaknesses by being loved by the public and I'm no exception to that. "

" I have the audience I deserve. Or at least I have the audience that represents the kind of people that I like. "

" Celebrity and secrets don't go together. The bastards will get you in the end. "

" I would advise any gay person that being out in the real sense can never happen too soon. "

" 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. "

" I don't really have any traits that I deplore. I get annoyed with myself sometimes, but that's about it. "

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

" I don't have joy in watching myself, whereas, actually, I quite like listening to my own music. "

" I have got other interests than just making music. I would like to follow those interests through. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people's self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition. "

" 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 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 find it too terrifying to go out in L.A. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It's only when the kids are in their late twenties that families really face up to what they are. "

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

" My depression at the end of Wham! was because I was beginning to realise I was gay, not bi. "

" English people have seen me get through scandals. "

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

" I'm the luckiest writer on earth. "