This is a very fickle business. It’s really about how much you value the other things in your life. I still value too many other things more than I do fame.
GEORGE MICHAEL50 percent of the people I perform for have come to scream at me and the other 50 percent have come to listen to the music.
More George Michael Quotes
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I seem to think that anything worth having in life has to be painful to attain.
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At a certain age I just stopped arguing. I realized that there was no way [my father] could see, because for him to approve of what I was doing, he would have to have some belief in me as a musician.
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I left school at 17 and was a star by the time I was 18 – in certain parts of the world anyway.
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There is no such thing as a reluctant star.
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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 suppose maybe if I had been an attractive child, I would have had less inclination to push my physical presence.
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I’m a perfectionist. It’s a big pain in the ass and it takes a lot of my time, but it really is going well and I have to do my own things.
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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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My dad worked in a very typical first-generation immigrant fashion – 24 hours a day for years.
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I don’t go for safe options. Romantically, I go for people who are a pain in the ass.
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I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.
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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 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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I’ve done too many stupid things for there not to be movies made about me when I’m dead, so I might as well write the script.
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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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