Quotes By George Michael

I'm lucky to be alive.

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

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

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.

I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.

I'm the luckiest writer on earth.

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

It's important to me that I should be free to express myself.

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.

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

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 can't bear Catholicism.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

My ego is sated.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I don't want to look at other people my age in leather. Why would I put it on?

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 really have no plans for any kind of career in TV or anything, but if I wanted to become good at it, I could. But I don't really think it's in the cards.