"Yog" is an abbreviation - my real name is Yorgos, which is Greek... by George Michael

"Yog" is an abbreviation - my real name is Yorgos, which is Greek for George.

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The word that pisses me off - "prepubescent." by George Michael

The word that pisses me off - "prepubescent."

I can't bear Catholicism. by George Michael

I can't bear Catholicism.

catholicism i-can bears

People have speculated about my sexuality for years and years. They are obviously interested in my sex life. Fine. Let them speculate. I'm not going to put them right one way or the other.

sex people years

Say what you want about America - thirteen bucks can still get yo... by George Michael

Say what you want about America - thirteen bucks can still get you a hell of a lot of mice!

bucks want america

I never had a moral problem with being gay. by George Michael

I never had a moral problem with being gay.

moral gay problem

The most common misconception people have had in the past is about my own control and calculation of my career.

careers people past

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.

picture-taken taken

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.

careers goodbye america

We always talked [with Andrew Ridgeley] about when it would happen - we always knew that I would go on to have a solo career.

solo careers goes-on

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.

wind people thinking

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.

mother grieving years

I'm not anti-American. I've lived with Kenny, a Texan, for six ye... by George Michael

I'm not anti-American. I've lived with Kenny, a Texan, for six years.

texan six years

I've never done anything so political before. I've spent years shouting my mouth off about serious issues over dinner tables but never really had the confidence to express my views in a song.

confidence views song

Yeah, I'm going to need a leather jacket for when I'm on my hog and need to go into a controlled slide.

leather-jackets slides needs

I don't really think that there is anyone in the modern pop busin... by George Michael

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

business want thinking

I want to make a pop album - something more upbeat than my stuff... by George Michael

I want to make a pop album - something more upbeat than my stuff was in the '90s.

albums want stuff

I think for most of us, our biggest frailties are sexual. by George Michael

I think for most of us, our biggest frailties are sexual.

frailty thinking

Stupid cupid keeps on calling me, but I see nothing in his eyes.... by George Michael

Stupid cupid keeps on calling me, but I see nothing in his eyes. I miss my babe

eye stupid missing

With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people's self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition.

stars self people

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.

kids people thinking