George Michael

“The fact I had my father as an adversary was such a powerful tool to work with. I subconsciously fought him to the degree that I drove me to be one of the most successful musician in the wor...”

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

“I don't really have any traits that I deplore. I get annoyed with myself sometimes, but that's about it.”

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

“I have no belief in The Bible or religion, but I think Armageddon was a lucky guess. I honestly think it's going to happen.”

“Celebrity and secrets don't go together. The bastards will get you in the end.”

“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 complica...”

“I can't bear Catholicism.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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 think the media is a real demon.”

“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 it...”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“English people have seen me get through scandals.”

“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.”