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" The truth is my love life has been a lot more turbulent than I have let on. "

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" 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. "

" I used to believe that George Michael was a total actor. It was self-defeating, because it made me also feel fraudulent. "

" I'm lucky to be alive. "

" I don't really think that there is anyone in the modern pop business who I feel I want to spar with. "

" Deep down, my ego always thought that I would outlast a lot of people that I was competing against. "

" 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. "

" It's strange. At some point in your career, the situation between yourself and the camera reverses. For a certain number of years, you court it and you need it, but ultimately, it needs you more, and it's a bit like a relationship. The minute that happens, it turns you off... and it does feel like it is taking something from you. "

" 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. "

" Your political system is actually too democratic. The fact that Americans vote on every bill and proposition can prolong bigotry indefinitely, especially where it is aimed at minority groups. "

" If I can just live further from the spotlight I think that'll be better for all really. "

" The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not. "

" I've never done anything so political before. I've spent years shouting my mouth off about serious issues over dinner tables but never really had the confidence to express my views in a song. "

" 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. "

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

" I know I have a very self-destructive tendency since my mother died, I have got to be honest. "

" The press seemed to take some delight that I previously had a 'straight audience,' and set about trying to destroy that. And I think some men were frustrated that their girlfriends wouldn't let go of the idea that George Michael just hadn't found the 'right girl.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I knew, regardless of anything else, singing in front of an orchestra was going to be inspirational. It would feed me. "

" I write about my life. "

" I have to believe that somebody up there thinks I've still got some work to do. "

" I've achieved what every artist wants, which is that some of their work will outlive them. "

" 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. "

" I'm the luckiest writer on earth. "

" I'm not a novelty act from the '80s in most parts of the world. "

" No one wants to look wholesome at 21! "

" I owe my mother who I am, and my father my drive. "

" It's almost required with major artists that there's some duality. And I've got duality everywhere. "