Quotes from George Michael

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.

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

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

I can't talk about Kathy [Jeung] anymore, because she doesn't want me to talk about her, and I'm not even sure that it's an ongoing relationship.

I never really told my parents that I wanted to be a pop star or anything. They just knew that I was totally obsessed with music. Funnily enough, my father always used to say that he didn't think I could sing.

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.

I don't consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying.

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.

In terms of my work, I've never been reticent in terms of defining my sexuality. I write about my life.

I think the media is a real demon.

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

I went to prison, I paid my bill.

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

Is my body a temple, or is my life a temple? I'm definitely in the latter category, and I think my life has been better since thinking that way.

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

There's not another drug in life that I'm glad I took but grass.

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.

No one wants to look wholesome at 21!

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

I also think I could probably repeat the commercial success; whether I want to or not is a different matter. I think there is still better work inside me.

It's absolutely essential that we have the same safeguards that straight couples do. But I want more than a 50 percent chance of success. I don't want to emulate that.

We [with Andrew Ridgeley] were getting so much attention and achieving such success. It never really bothered me.

I just feel "One More Try" is better lyrically. "Careless Whisper" was written when I was 17 years old, and I had not really experienced anything that strong in my life, so it was a bit precocious.