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" 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. "

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" 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

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Believe

" 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. "

" 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 went to prison, I paid my bill. "

" I'd been out to a lot of people since 19. I wish to God it had happened then. I don't think I would have the same career - my ego might not have been satisfied in some areas - but I think I would have been a happier man. "

" 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. "

" Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart. "

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

George Michael

Kind

Audience

" I know that I sound self-satisfied, and I know that I've got an ego, but I don't have an ego problem. "

" The media has affected everybody's consciousness much more than most people will admit. "

George Michael

Admit

Most

" 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 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

Media

" 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. "

" I have more love, success, and security than I could ever dream of. "

" 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

" I think the media is a real demon. "

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

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

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

George Michael

Too

Terrifying

" I'm not anti-American. I've lived with Kenny, a Texan, for six years. "

" I've written a whole body of work that I'm incredibly proud of. "

" 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. "

George Michael

Years

" 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. "

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

" I've always been the porky boy in my head. "

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

" I don't consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying. "

" There's no comfort in the truth, pain is all you'll find. "