George Michael Quotes

Be good to yourself 'cause nobody else has the power to make you happy.

I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.

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.

Change is a stranger you have yet to know.

Without 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.

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.

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

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.

I have to believe that somebody up there thinks I've still got some work to do.

I have never thought about my sexuality being right or wrong. To me it has always been a case of finding the right person.

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.

Only time will set you free, just like me

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.

I think my idea of a perfect romance is when two people really belong to each other.

If someone really wants to hurt you, they'll find a way whatever. I don't want to live my life worrying about it.

I can't believe that I've written my best work yet. If I believed that, then I wouldn't bother releasing music anymore.

Teacher, there are things that I don't want to learn.

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.

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

I think the media is a real demon.

Freedom. I will not give you up.

I don't want to look at other people my age in leather. Why would I put it on?

Playing with Queen was the biggest moment of my career. It was like living a childhood fantasy.

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.

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.

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

I have never felt any ethnic connection between the Greeks and me other than how hairy I am.

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?

My music is some of the most honest music that's been released and I think that's why people buy it.

I am really not interested or excited by repeating former successes.

Stupid cupid keeps on calling me, but I see nothing in his eyes. I miss my babe

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

[My family] is one of the strongest families you're ever likely to see.

"Yog" is an abbreviation - my real name is Yorgos, which is Greek for George.

I really have no plans for any kind of career in TV or anything, but if I wanted to become good at it, I could. But I don't really think it's in the cards.

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.

There is no such thing as a reluctant star.

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 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.

I got to say hello to Snoop Dogg. I got to, I was being barged out of the way by his bodyguards but I got to say hello to him which was cool.

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

I seem to think that anything worth having in life has to be painful to attain.

All we have to see is that I don't belong to you, and you don't belong to me.

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

Take 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.

I have definitely reached the same level as Madonna in terms of sales. I'm really pleased about that.

Yet ["One More Try" ] really seemed to connect with people, which is a wonderful thing and a marvelous coincidence.

My dad worked in a very typical first-generation immigrant fashion - 24 hours a day for years.

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

[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.