Explore Quotes by 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.

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.

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.'

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I have got other interests than just making music. I would like to follow those interests through.

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.

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.

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.'

No one wants to look wholesome at 21!

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.

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.

I spent the first half of my career being accused of being gay when I hadn't had anything like a gay relationship.

You can't have a child just to keep a relationship together, can you?

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

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

I mean, I've done different things at different times that I shouldn't have done, once or twice, you know.

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