Before Watergate, there was apparently much more international news coverage in America and people were much better informed.
Blair clearly thinks it's really sexy to be up there with Mr. Bush on the world stage. I think he's also motivated by a real desire to be a positive influence.
Celebrity and secrets don't go together. The bastards will get you in the end.
Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.
From my own point, I can't be angry with anyone but myself. The only people I've really hurt are myself, the people who love me and my partner, who has been absolutely amazing and understands me.
Gay Brit men of 16 now have the same rights as their female counterparts, and that is something I don't see happening soon in America.
Getting arrested was quite inspirational in a way. Even though my life was falling apart in many ways, my career went from strength to strength.
I define my sexuality in terms of the people that I love.
I did not try to convince the arresting officer that I was looking for my lottery ticket when he arrested me. They were trying to make me look greedy as well as perverse.
I do want people to know the songs that I wrote when I was with women were really about women, and the songs I have written since have been fairly obviously about men.
I don't know what I would do if I were given the opportunity to start over.
I find myself sympathizing with the Americans. Why should they buy this rubbish? Even we aren't buying it in any great numbers.
I gave myself the chance to slow my life down and grow up a bit.
I left school at 17 and was a star by the time I was 18 - in certain parts of the world anyway.
I noticed a lot of stuff about the growing fear of a war between the secular world and the fundamentalist world.
I probably owe an apology to fans that have been supportive and have not wanted to believe any of this was true. It takes a little bit of the sheen off of the mystique.
I really did at one point believe that I never wanted that sort of success.
I really feel this is such a serious time for us all that being silent is not an option.
I risked all kinds of things. I risked prosecution. I'm not proud of that at all.
I simply wanted to write a song that said to everybody, Let's be aware of this situation. I see politics in very human terms.
I spent years growing up being told what my sexuality was.
I think America is a far more fearful society in general at this point in time, and that is holding American gays back in terms of political change.
I think for most of us, our biggest frailties are sexual.
I think I was as terrified as anybody else with moderate views that Mr. Bush was not the best man for the job, that he might be too trigger-happy.
I think many gay people in the States would be genuinely shocked at just how much more progressive Europeans are.
I think the media is a real demon.
I want to make a pop album - something more upbeat than my stuff was in the '90s.
I was definitely gay and knew if I was going to be gay and happy, I needed to find a partner, and I was not going to do that traveling the world as George Michael.
I was pretty depressed about my mother's death. I was as down as I've ever been. It was even worse than when my lover died. I found it hard to cope.
I was very miserable at the centre of that kind of fame at 23-24.
I would advise any gay person that being out in the real sense can never happen too soon.
I'd like to put to rest some misconceptions full stop. The greatest misconception of this week is that I've had the most hellish time in my life.
I'd stopped having relationships with women-I have not been in a relationship with a woman for almost 10 years.
I'm a concerned Englishman living in a very dangerous time for this country, who is fortunate enough to have a platform to speak out.
I'm a very proud man. I want people to know that I feel stupid and I feel reckless and weak for having allowed my sexuality to be exposed this way, but I don't feel any shame whatsoever.
I'm an extremely patriotic person.
I'm angry at media generally about a lot of things, but not just for myself. All of us, whether we're famous or not, happen to get caught in the glare of publicity over one issue or another.
I'm hoping that my relationship is the one that is going to last me for the rest of my life.
I'm not a nationalist or a racist. I'm very proud of England, more than anything for its multiculturalism.
I'm not anti-American. I've lived with Kenny, a Texan, for six years.
I'm pissed with myself for having been so stupid.
I've been living in a circus. Literally hundreds of people outside the house wait day and night for something-I don't know what, exactly.
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.
I've travelled the world, and I absolutely know that England is the place that I want to be.
If someone had told me five years ago that my life would be this good now, I would have been so relieved. I'm not afraid of anything now.
In Europe, the '90s didn't see the horrific backlash against liberalism that the United States did, and we don't have the religious right to deal with, thank God.
In terms of my work, I've never been reticent in terms of defining my sexuality.
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.
It's all very well cosying up to America and talking up our special relationship but we have a large Islamic population here.
It's important to me that I should be free to express myself.
It's my own stupid fault, as usual.
It's my own stupid fault, as usual. I was in possession of class C drugs, which is an offence, and I have no complaints about the police, who were professional throughout.
It's people like Garth's audience that we are trying to reach. If we only preach to the converted, the show is just a celebration.
My American gay audience have continued to dance and sing to the music I make in a way that straight Americans haven't. I am grateful to them for that.
My life has been like a really bad soap opera for the past 10 years.
My life right now is very happy, living in a gay relationship.
My sexuality was not cut and dried. I spent the first half of my career being accused of being gay when I hadn't had anything like a gay relationship. I was 27 before that happened to me.
Of course, I want to sell this record - there's no point making it otherwise.
Our government needs to reassure the Islamic population that we are not going into the Middle East with a gung-ho attitude, blindly following America.
People like to think they can spot a gay person as opposed to a straight person because it makes them feel a little more defined in themselves.
The idea that people thought I was ashamed of being gay took me years to work out.
The PM's wife is always a good vehicle for satire, so I put her in the song to make a point and make people laugh.
The truth in today's world is a little less simple-at least if you're a British celebrity who happens to be gay.
The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.
There must be a lot of Islamic people feeling very uncomfortable in Britain right now, and that's not right.
There's never been a more important time to talk than now.
There's no comfort in the truth, pain is all you'll find.
This is the most dangerous period of our lives.
Tony Blair was being seen as America's strongest ally at a point when the Middle East was feeling increasingly bullied by the West. It occurred to me that Britain was starting to become a more dangerous place than it used to be.
With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people's self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition.
You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.
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.
George's album "Listen Without Prejudice Vol.1" won the Brit Award for British Album in 1991.
George wrote "Careless Whisper" at the age of 17, but didn't release it until he was 21 years old.
His last performance with "Wham!" was on June 1986 at Wembley Stadium.
Height: 5' 11" (1.80 m)
After a string of car accidents, Michael has now employed a driver to ferry him around London.
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