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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

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

Boundary Difficult Yourself
My dad worked in a very typical first-generation immigrant fashion – 24 hours a day for years.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Day Father Myself Occupation Work
This stuff [marijuana] keeps me sane and happy. I’d say it’s a great drug – but obviously it’s not very healthy.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Drugs Greatness Happiness Healthy Myself
The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it’s total crap to pretend it’s not.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Build Business Ego Myself Pretend Satisfaction
It’s important to me that I should be free to express myself.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Expression Freedom Important Myself
I’d never touch anything. I think it’s foolhardy to play around with the face that you’ve been given. To have a little snip or a tuck, I think, is really quite obscene.
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Face Obscene Play Quite Thinking Touch
I have been taken for a ride a couple of times. I’ve been hurt by people who I’ve had a 90 percent possibility of being hurt by.
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Couple Hurt Myself Possible Time
I think my idea of a perfect romance is when two people really belong to each other.
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Each Other Ideas People Romance Thinking
I suppose maybe if I had been an attractive child, I would have had less inclination to push my physical presence.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Attraction Children Myself Physical Presence
50 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.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Listening Myself People Performance Scream
Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Happiness History Myself Way
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.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Charity Music Myself See Work
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’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.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Death Movie Myself Scripture Stupidity Writing
Freedom. I will not give you up.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Determination Freedom Give Up Yourself
I had my very first relationship at 27 because I really had not actually come to terms with my sexuality until I was 24.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Identify Myself Relationship Sexuality
I don’t want to look at other people my age in leather. Why would I put it on?
GEORGE MICHAEL

Age Myself People See
Be good to yourself ’cause nobody else has the power to make you happy.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Goodness Happiness Power Self Love Yourself
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
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.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Afraid Courage Important Myself
There is no such thing as a reluctant star.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Reluctant Stars
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.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Life Myself Obsession
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
You’ll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Heart Listening Mindset Peace Yourself
I am really not interested or excited by repeating former successes.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Excitement Form Interest Myself Repeat Success
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

Couple Expectation Myself People Serious

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.

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