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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.

George Michael

I have the audience I deserve. Or at least I have the audience that represents the kind of people that I like.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Audience Deserve Kind Myself People Representation
Playing with Queen was the biggest moment of my career. It was like living a childhood fantasy.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Big Career Childhood Fantasy Moments Myself Play
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.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Myself Perfection Time
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.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Better Change Feeling Heart People Steal Way Willing Yourself
You’ll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Heart Listening Mindset Peace Yourself
I just hope that I’ll stay around musically for as long as I can. I love to think that I will still be satisfying myself and other people as a musician until the day I die.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Hope Love Music Musician Myself Satisfaction Stay Think
I think the media is a real demon.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Demon Media Myself Reality Thinking
I think my idea of a perfect romance is when two people really belong to each other.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Each Other Ideas People Romance Thinking
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.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Age Approval Argument Musician Myself Realization Stop
Be good to yourself ’cause nobody else has the power to make you happy.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Goodness Happiness Power Self Love Yourself
I mean, it is the perfect situation to really love someone to death and to want to rip their clothes off at the same time, isn’t it?
GEORGE MICHAEL

Clothes Death Myself Perfection Time
It’s the ones who resist that we most want to kiss, wouldn’t you say?
GEORGE MICHAEL

Kiss Resistance Yourself
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 MICHAEL

Business Fame Myself Value
I have never felt any ethnic connection between the Greeks and me other than how hairy I am.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Appearance Connection Myself Time
The most common misconception people have had in the past is about my own control and calculation of my career.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Calculation Career Control Myself Past People
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.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Compassionate Media Place Resource Run Teaching World
[My family] is one of the strongest families you’re ever likely to see.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Endurance Family Myself Strong
All we have to see is that I don’t belong to you, and you don’t belong to me.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Myself Relationship See Yourself
It’s really difficult trying to find the line where you don’t piss anybody off.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Boundary Difficult Yourself
I don’t go for safe options. Romantically, I go for people who are a pain in the ass.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Myself Opinion Pain People Romantic Safety
My dad worked in a very typical first-generation immigrant fashion – 24 hours a day for years.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Day Father Myself Occupation Work
As I became George professionally and everyone called me George, Yog became the name that people who knew me from before started to use. It became more valuable to me.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Before Myself Name People Professional Value
Change is a stranger you have yet to know.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Change Deep Perspective Stranger Yourself
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.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Attraction Fight Friendship Myself People Time
I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Believe Gift God Greatness Man Music Myself
I’m surprised that I’ve survived my own dysfunction, really.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Achievement Dysfunction Myself Surprised
I truly believed that tonight would never happen, that I would never sing these songs to you again. But then I’m a fool, which you’ve probably worked out by now.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Fools Myself Sing True Work

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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