Quotes By George Michael

I left school at 17 and was a star by the time I was 18 - in certain parts of the world anyway.

Your political system is actually too democratic. The fact that Americans vote on every bill and proposition can prolong bigotry indefinitely, especially where it is aimed at minority groups.

You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.

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

I watch people who are not driven by creativity any more, and I think how dull it must be to produce the same kind of thing. If you don't feel you're reaching something new, then don't do it.

I'm lucky to be alive.

The truth is my love life has been a lot more turbulent than I have let on.

Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.

I spent years growing up being told what my sexuality was.

I find it too terrifying to go out in L.A.

I'm surprised that I've survived my own dysfunction, really.

I'm the luckiest writer on earth.

It's important to me that I should be free to express myself.

My depression at the end of Wham! was because I was beginning to realise I was gay, not bi.

I had to walk away from America, and say goodbye to the biggest part of my career, because I knew otherwise my demons would get the better of me.

I don't have joy in watching myself, whereas, actually, I quite like listening to my own music.

I don't really think that there is anyone in the modern pop business who I feel I want to spar with.

I can't bear Catholicism.

I am a political person, though not with a big P.

I've written a whole body of work that I'm incredibly proud of.

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.

With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people's self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition.

My ego is sated.

Stars are almost always people that want to make up for their own weaknesses by being loved by the public and I'm no exception to that.

I have more love, success, and security than I could ever dream of.

The media has affected everybody's consciousness much more than most people will admit.

It's only when the kids are in their late twenties that families really face up to what they are.

I've been very well remunerated for my talents over the years so I really don't need the public's money.

I'm not anti-American. I've lived with Kenny, a Texan, for six years.

I would advise any gay person that being out in the real sense can never happen too soon.