George Michael Quotes - Page 3

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.

I suppose romantically there are fantasies that can still be realized. But not professionally.

It's the ones who resist that we most want to kiss, wouldn't you say?

[Music From the Edge of Heaven] wasn't really an album at all. The band had made the decision to release an LP and then split up. We wanted to go out with a bang in Britain and the rest of the world by having a single that was four songs, not just one song. But we couldn't do that over here because we couldn't release a single without an album.

I thought I had fallen in love with a woman a couple of times. Then I fell in love with a man, and realised that none of those things had been love.

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.

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

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

I suppose maybe if I had been an attractive child, I would have had less inclination to push my physical presence.

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

I don't like having my picture taken and I don't like looking at myself because I don't particularly like what I see.

The only difficulty is that I'm playing to two audiences, and it's too bad the noise detracts from the show, because it's a great show. I've seen my own self out there, and it's a very good musical show. Sometimes the show gets lost in the hysteria and sometimes it doesn't.

I've been approached many times by many different people, and most people want to do something that I write and produce, and I'm just not into that.

When someone is always going to be there for you. I meet people like that all the time, but I have this unfortunate attraction to people I think I have to fight to become friends with.

There is no such thing as a reluctant star.

I'm perfectly happy to admit that insecurity. It doesn't bother me. It's there, just the same as the color of my eyes is there. I'm never going to get rid of it. I'm not going to wake up one morning and really like the way I look, but as long as other people like the way I look, that's fine.

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'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.

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

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

[My father] was more than apprehensive. He didn't think I stood a chance in hell. He had no confidence in me whatsoever and was convinced that I was going to be coming to him for money when I was 40. We argued about it constantly.

I find it difficult enough as it is to keep some kind of normality in my life. I enjoy this experience, but I don't know where I'm going to take my career.

[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.

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

That feels natural to me, singing in a small group of people I just can't do. You'll never hear me sing at a dinner table or anything, but this feels kinda natural. I've done it many, many times. So, and also, the pressure's off me cos I'm not singing on my own. I'm just doing a few harmonies with my stuffed nose.