Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" I'd like to say things are bound to get better, but I don't really believe it. "
George Michael
Get
Better
Believe
Related Quotes:
" I would advise any gay person that being out in the real sense can never happen too soon. "
George Michael
Never
Sense
Gay
" I am really not interested or excited by repeating former successes. "
George Michael
Repeating
Excited
Not Interested
" I knew, regardless of anything else, singing in front of an orchestra was going to be inspirational. It would feed me. "
George Michael
Inspirational
Singing
Orchestra
" My ego is sated. "
George Michael
Ego
" 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'm just not security-minded. "
George Michael
Just
" I mean, I've done different things at different times that I shouldn't have done, once or twice, you know. "
George Michael
Twice
Know
Done
" 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 think the media is a real demon. "
George Michael
I Think
Media
Demon
" I owe my mother who I am, and my father my drive. "
George Michael
Father
Drive
I Am
" 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. "
George Michael
Years
People
Loyal
" I spent years growing up being told what my sexuality was. "
George Michael
Sexuality
Growing
Years
" I've written a whole body of work that I'm incredibly proud of. "
George Michael
Whole
Proud
Work
" 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
" Apart from some of the videos and haircuts, I don't think I've made any wrong moves, ha ha! "
George Michael
Moves
Videos
Think
" I have got other interests than just making music. I would like to follow those interests through. "
George Michael
Like
Just
Follow
" I want to make a pop album - something more upbeat than my stuff was in the '90s. "
George Michael
Than
Want
Stuff
" 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. "
George Michael
You
Trying
More
" 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
" If I can just live further from the spotlight I think that'll be better for all really. "
George Michael
Live
I Can
Better
" I realised those things my ego needed - fame and success - were going to make me terribly unhappy. So I wrenched myself away from that. I had to. 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. "
George Michael
Walk
Goodbye
Myself
" I'm not a novelty act from the '80s in most parts of the world. "
George Michael
Act
Novelty
World
" I never minded being thought of as a pop star. People have always thought I wanted to be seen as a serious musician, but I didn't, I just wanted people to know that I was absolutely serious about pop music. "
George Michael
Thought
Music
People
" 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. "
George Michael
Creativity
You
Think
" Celebrity and secrets don't go together. The bastards will get you in the end. "
George Michael
End
You
Together
" I don't want to look at other people my age in leather. Why would I put it on? "
George Michael
Look
Leather
Age
" I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man. "
George Michael
Believe
Gifts
God
" 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
" I have never felt any ethnic connection between the Greeks and me other than how hairy I am. "
George Michael
How
Me
I Am
" My depression at the end of Wham! was because I was beginning to realise I was gay, not bi. "
George Michael
Depression
Because
Beginning