190 Quotes by George Michael

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

A lot of people like me, who've been around for years and years and years, only really lose it in their forties and fifties.

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.

My ego is sated.

The first sign of real obsession with music was with an old wind-up gramophone that mum had thrown out into the garage. My parents gave me three old 45s - two Supremes records and one Tom Jones record - and I used to come home from school literally every day, go out to the garage, wind this thing up, and play them.

There are things about my mum that I only realised later, things that make me admire her.

I had been obsessed with insects and creepy-crawlies: I used to get up at five o'clock in the morning and go out into this field behind our garden and collect insects before everyone else got up, and suddenly, all I wanted to know about was music. It just seemed a very, very strange thing.

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.

Deep down, my ego always thought that I would outlast a lot of people that I was competing against.