My mother is much more musical, and by the time I started writing songs – by the time I was about 17 – she started to believe in me, musically.
GEORGE MICHAELMy mother is much more musical, and by the time I started writing songs – by the time I was about 17 – she started to believe in me, musically.
GEORGE MICHAELI don’t go for safe options. Romantically, I go for people who are a pain in the ass.
GEORGE MICHAELAt 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 MICHAELThere 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.
GEORGE MICHAELI 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 MICHAELWithout despair, we will share, and the joys of caring will not be erased. What has been, must never end, the joys of caring will not be replace.
GEORGE MICHAELI have never thought about my sexuality being right or wrong. To me it has always been a case of finding the right person.
GEORGE MICHAELYou’ll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.
GEORGE MICHAELI 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 MICHAELTake 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.
GEORGE MICHAELChange is a stranger you have yet to know.
GEORGE MICHAELIt’s the ones who resist that we most want to kiss, wouldn’t you say?
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.
GEORGE MICHAELI can’t believe that I’ve written my best work yet. If I believed that, then I wouldn’t bother releasing music anymore.
GEORGE MICHAELI am really not interested or excited by repeating former successes.
GEORGE MICHAELEverything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.
GEORGE MICHAEL