You’ll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.
George Michael
It takes so much strength to say to your ego, ‘You know what? You’re going to keep me lonely, so I have to ignore you.’
George Michael
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
I have never thought about my sexuality being right or wrong. To me it has always been a case of finding the right person.
George Michael
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
I’m surprised that I’ve survived my own dysfunction, really.
George Michael
If someone really wants to hurt you, they’ll find a way whatever. I don’t want to live my life worrying about it.
George Michael
I don’t really have any traits that I deplore. I get annoyed with myself sometimes, but that’s about it.
George Michael
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
I don’t consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying.
George Michael
I don’t consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying.
George Michael
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.
George Michael
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.
George Michael
The truth is my love life has been a lot more turbulent than I have let on.
George Michael
I have never felt any ethnic connection between the Greeks and me other than how hairy I am.
George Michael
I’d like to say things are bound to get better, but I don’t really believe it.
George Michael
The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it’s total crap to pretend it’s not.
George Michael
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.’
George Michael
There’s no comfort in the truth, pain is all you’ll find.
George Michael
I went to prison, I paid my bill.
George Michael
It’s important to me that I should be free to express myself.
George Michael
I define my sexuality in terms of the people that I love.
George Michael
Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.
George Michael
I’ve achieved what every artist wants, which is that some of their work will outlive them.
George Michael
There is no such thing as a reluctant star.
George Michael
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.
George Michael
Deep down, my ego always thought that I would outlast a lot of people that I was competing against.
George Michael
Celebrity and secrets don’t go together. The bastards will get you in the end.
George Michael
I write about my life.
George Michael
In the years when HIV was a killer, any parent of an openly gay person was terrified. I knew my mother well enough that she would spend every day praying that I didn’t come across that virus. She’d have worried like that.
George Michael
I think for most of us, our biggest frailties are sexual.
George Michael
I can’t bear Catholicism.
George Michael
I know that I sound self-satisfied, and I know that I’ve got an ego, but I don’t have an ego problem.
George Michael
I think the media is a real demon.
George Michael
I spent years growing up being told what my sexuality was.
George Michael
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
Even though it’s become a really cliched thing to see musicians working for charity, it’s still effective and it still has to be done.
George Michael
I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.
George Michael
I owe my mother who I am, and my father my drive.
George Michael
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.
George Michael
With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people’s self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition.
George Michael
Of course, I want to sell this record – there’s no point making it otherwise.
George Michael
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’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.
George Michael
I’m not anti-American. I’ve lived with Kenny, a Texan, for six years.
George Michael
I would advise any gay person that being out in the real sense can never happen too soon.
George Michael
I want to make a pop album – something more upbeat than my stuff was in the ’90s.
George Michael
I left school at 17 and was a star by the time I was 18 – in certain parts of the world anyway.
George Michael
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
If I can just live further from the spotlight I think that’ll be better for all really.
George Michael
I have more love, success, and security than I could ever dream of.
George Michael
I’m the luckiest writer on earth.
George Michael
I don’t really think that there is anyone in the modern pop business who I feel I want to spar with.
George Michael