“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.”
“I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.”
“Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.”
“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 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?”
“I have got other interests than just making music. I would like to follow those interests through”
“You couldn’t release the single on its own, because no one wanted it.”
“Only time will set you free, just like me”
“Cover me with kisses and lies”
“There are so many things and so many aspects to gay life that I’ve discovered and so many things to write about. I have a new life, and I have a new take on dance music because of that life.”
“I never minded being thought of as a pop star. People have always thought I wanted to be seen as a serious musician, but I didn’t, I just wanted people to know that I was absolutely serious about pop music”
“The truth is my love life has been a lot more turbulent than I have let on.”
“I suppose romantically there are fantasies that can still be realized. But not professionally.”
“If someone really wants to hurt you, they’ll find a way whatever. I don’t want to live my life worrying about it”
“Change is a stranger you have yet to know.”
“I think my idea of a perfect romance is when two people really belong to each other.”
“I think I’ve gotten everything I want out of the last years, and I still feel like I have a lot of options open to me.”
“I left school at 17 and was a star by the time I was 18 – in certain parts of the world anyway”
“All we have to see is that I don’t belong to you, and you don’t belong to me.”
“The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it’s total crap to pretend it’s not.”
“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 the ones who resist that we most want to kiss, wouldn’t you say?”
“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.”
“There’s no comfort in the truth, pain is all you’ll find”
“The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it’s total crap to pretend it’s not.”
“As you become older, you become more selective. Most celebrities bore me to tears”
“You can’t have a child just to keep a relationship together, can you?”
“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.”
“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 finally realised that one reason why my life has felt so self-destructive is that I never had any feeling that my talent would let me down”
“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.”
“You’ll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.”
“Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.”
“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.”
“Still, the music was always there, and the lyrical capability was always threatening to show its head.”
“I have to believe that somebody up there thinks I’ve still got some work to do.”
“Be good to yourself ’cause nobody else has the power to make you happy.”
“I used to think George Michael was a total actor. It was self-defeating, because it made me feel fraudulent”
“It helps if you have a beard as it covers a multitude of sins. It really does”
“You’ll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart”
“It’s almost required with major artists that there’s some duality. And I’ve got duality everywhere.”
“Freedom. I will not give you up.”
“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.”
“I don’t want to look at other people my age in leather. Why would I put it on?”
“I have to believe that somebody up there thinks I’ve still got some work to do.”
“I’m surprised that I’ve survived my own dysfunction, really.”
“I seem to think that anything worth having in life has to be painful to attain.”
“I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man”
“I don’t have joy in watching myself, whereas, actually, I quite like listening to my own music”
“There is no comfort in the truth , pain is all you find”
“””Yog”” is an abbreviation – my real name is Yorgos, which is Greek for George.”
“I don’t go for safe options. Romantically, I go for people who are a pain in the ass.”
“I can’t believe that I’ve written my best work yet. If I believed that, then I wouldn’t bother releasing music anymore.”
“There is no such thing as a reluctant star.”
“It’s important to me that I should be free to express myself.”
“There’s something deep inside of me. There’s someone else I’ve got to be.”