I left school at 17 and was a star by the time I was 18 – in certain parts of the world anyway.
GEORGE MICHAELWe [with Andrew Ridgeley] didn’t expect people to take it seriously. But naturally they did, and they thought we were a couple of wankers.
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I think the media is a real demon.
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When someone is always going to be there for you. I meet people like that all the time, but I have this unfortunate attraction to people I think I have to fight to become friends with.
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I can’t believe that I’ve written my best work yet. If I believed that, then I wouldn’t bother releasing music anymore.
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There are very few things in my life that I can’t have if I want them. So when I see something that I can’t have, immediately I’m obsessed by it.
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I suppose maybe if I had been an attractive child, I would have had less inclination to push my physical presence.
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Sex is natural, sex is good/Not everybody does it, but everybody should.
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People, you can never change the way they feel. Better let them do what they will. For they will, if you let them, steal your heart.
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I seem to think that anything worth having in life has to be painful to attain.
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It’s important to me that I should be free to express myself.
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There is no such thing as a reluctant star.
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I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.
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Teacher, there are things that I don’t want to learn.
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This stuff [marijuana] keeps me sane and happy. I’d say it’s a great drug – but obviously it’s not very healthy.
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I have two sisters. My father is Greek and comes from a family of seven. My mother is English and comes from a family of five.
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I find it difficult enough as it is to keep some kind of normality in my life. I enjoy this experience, but I don’t know where I’m going to take my career.
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My mother pretty much used to go along with my dad in that she wanted me to get an education so that if this incredible dream I had didn’t work out, I would have something to fall back on.
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We [with Andrew Ridgeley] didn’t expect people to take it seriously. But naturally they did, and they thought we were a couple of wankers.
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I have definitely reached the same level as Madonna in terms of sales. I’m really pleased about that.
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If someone really wants to hurt you, they’ll find a way whatever. I don’t want to live my life worrying about it.
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Playing with Queen was the biggest moment of my career. It was like living a childhood fantasy.
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Take back your picture in a frame. Take back your singing in the rain. I just hope you understand sometimes the clothes do not make the man.
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I went through a long period where I was afraid of doing things I wanted to do, and you get your courage back, which is what’s important.
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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.
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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.
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My music is some of the most honest music that’s been released and I think that’s why people buy it.
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By the time I was in my early teens, we were able to move into a much more middle-class area. I had a comfortable adolescence.
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