I 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.
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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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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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I have never thought about my sexuality being right or wrong. To me it has always been a case of finding the right person.
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I think the media is a real demon.
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I am really not interested or excited by repeating former successes.
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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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There is no such thing as a reluctant star.
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Sex is natural, sex is good/Not everybody does it, but everybody should.
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I have to believe that somebody up there thinks I’ve still got some work to do.
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I don’t want to look at other people my age in leather. Why would I put it on?
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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.
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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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I think my idea of a perfect romance is when two people really belong to each other.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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I wouldn’t marry until I was ready to have children.
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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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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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I couldn’t change anything without changing the end position, and I’m perfectly happy now. So whatever I feel in some sense may have been a mistake in the past is, in another sense, not a mistake, because it’s left me here.
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Freedom. I will not give you up.
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The most common misconception people have had in the past is about my own control and calculation of my career.
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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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Be good to yourself ’cause nobody else has the power to make you happy.
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