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    George Michael

    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.

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    George Michael

    A lot of people felt that I was just tying that into the "I Want Your Sex" theme because of the AIDS thing and the prospect of the song's being banned. I thought it was a relevant point to make because of the AIDS thing. I wanted to write a song which sounded dirty but which was applicable to someone that I really cared about. That was my point.

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    George Michael

    Andrew [Ridgeley] and I had demoed a couple of our songs very cheaply, and we weren't expecting any kind of record deal. We just walked around with our demo tape, trying to find someone to give us the money to demo properly. Instead of that, we got a record contract. It was just an incredibly lucky break.

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    George Michael

    Basically I see that song as a bunch of images which I threw together to represent the fact that I was seeing one girl and then I started seeing another, and it was just the guilt in between those two periods. The ballads I've written since have been about things that really hurt me.

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    George Michael

    Because of the media, the way the world is perceived is as a place where resources and time are running out. We're taught that you have to grab what you can before it's gone. It's almost as if there isn't time for compassion.

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    George Michael

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

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    George Michael

    Both of us knew the band had run its course. We were both unhappy doing it, but I think the way Andrew [Ridgeley] was being treated as the less important half of the duo had finally taken its toll on him.

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    George Michael

    By the time I was in my early teens, we were able to move into a much more middle-class area. I had a comfortable adolescence.

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    English people have seen me get through scandals.

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    George Michael

    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.

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

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    George Michael

    Everything was meant to wind people up [in Make It Big ]. I don't know why we had this great pleasure in winding people up, but we really did think they would get the joke. And it backfired on us.

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    George Michael

    For a while I took Ecstacy when it was not very available over here. I took it simply because it made me feel that everything was wonderful.

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    George Michael

    George was the easy part. As for Michael, I had always liked the name, and my father's brother is named Michael. I thought it was a good idea because there are a lot of Greeks in England with the second name of Michael; as a child I had a Greek friend whose second name was Michael. It was like getting the name that I wanted without having to get rid of the Greek element.

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    George Michael

    I always knew I was attractive to girls just from the point of view that they liked me.

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

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

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    George Michael

    I define my sexuality in terms of the people that I love.

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    George Michael

    I didn't expect to enter into tabloid trivia or anything like that. So I suspect my perspective and a lot of my ideas changed fairly drastically. It was also rather confusing.

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    George Michael

    I didn't really think that it would be as easy as this. I did believe that the album [Faith] had a chance, because I though the material was strong enough, but things have just gone like clockwork. It's been incredible.

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    George Michael

    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.

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    George Michael

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

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    George Michael

    I don't go for safe options. Romantically, I go for people who are a pain in the ass.

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    George Michael

    I don't know what age the people who review my concerts reached puberty, I don't know if people in America reach puberty a lot later than they do in England or something like that, but the majority of those people are in their late teens and early twenties.

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    George Michael

    I don't really feel I deserve something if I haven't had to fight for it. It's not a conscious attitude, and it's stupid and wrong. Sometimes you do deserve things without having to put yourself through agony.

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    George Michael

    I don't really think that there is anyone in the modern pop business who I feel I want to spar with.

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    George Michael

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

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    I do think that Live Aid (1985) (TV) was a great thing, it focused people, I think it showed young kids the way in many respects and I think a lot of people are still inspired by what happened in the mid-Eighties.

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    George Michael

    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.

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    George Michael

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

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    George Michael

    I get along really well with [my father] now, but I had a terrible time with him in my teenage years. All we did was scream at each other, and when we weren't screaming at each other, we just wouldn't talk to each other.

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    George Michael

    I guess I was about 15. I wore glasses at the time, and I remember [first girlfriend] sitting on the floor at a party, one of those school parties where everyone is getting off with each other. I remember her taking my glasses off and saying something very complimentary about my eyes or whatever, and I was just so pissed off because I was convinced she was taking the piss out of me.

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    George Michael

    I had a very important personal point to make with this song [I Want Your Sex]. I just hated the idea that lust and forbidden excitement could only come with sleaze and strangers.

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    I had my very first relationship at 27 because I really had not actually come to terms with my sexuality until I was 24.

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    George Michael

    I had surprisingly little money when Wham! ended. You'd be very surprised how little, really, because you don't realize how much money it takes to maintain a band.

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    George Michael

    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.

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    George Michael

    I have been taken for a ride a couple of times. I've been hurt by people who I've had a 90 percent possibility of being hurt by.

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

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    George Michael

    I have no doubt that the music I release next will be better.

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

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    George Michael

    I have two sisters. My father is Greek and comes from a family of seven. My mother is English and comes from a family of five.

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    George Michael

    I hope it really comes off. It would make my dad really proud." (about the song for the coming 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, Greece)

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    George Michael

    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.

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    George Michael

    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.

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    George Michael

    I just mean people who seem unavailable in the sense that they're not prepared to totally cling to anyone. I'm very attracted to people who are basically free spirits.

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    George Michael

    I lost my partner [Anselmo Feleppa] to HIV then it took about three years to grieve; then after that I lost my mother. I felt almost like I was cursed.

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    George Michael

    I'm a perfectionist. It's a big pain in the ass and it takes a lot of my time, but it really is going well and I have to do my own things.

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    I'm basically a control freak. It's not because I want to be. I'm not at all into the power play that's involved in it.

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    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?

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    George Michael

    I'm looking back to a period of my life when I was badly hurt and then looking at another time when I felt I had things going for me again, so I suppose there is a theme [of the Faith album].