Creativity Quote by George Michael

Fame, in George Michael's telling, is less applause than annexation. Pop stars and film stars don’t just get watched; they get used. They become raw material for other people’s identity work, a kind of public mirror where fans try on attitudes, confidence, rebellion, glamour. “Self-definition” is the clean, sociological phrase for something intensely personal: the way a teenager borrows a singer’s swagger to survive high school, or an adult pins their longing for reinvention onto someone impossibly polished.

Then he sharpens it: “sexual definition.” That’s not just about being found attractive. It’s about how celebrity turns into a safe testing ground for desire, especially in cultures that police it. You can want a star before you can name what you want in real life. You can project onto a famous body without consequence, without rejection, without having to risk intimacy. The star becomes a proxy for orientation, fantasy, permission.

Michael knew the bargain intimately. He spent years being marketed as a heterosexual heartthrob while privately navigating queerness in an era when the closet was still an industry standard. So the line carries a quiet accusation: the public doesn’t merely consume music or movies; it consumes a person as a tool for its own narratives. The subtext is fatigue and clarity. When a celebrity is drafted into everyone else’s coming-of-age, the individual underneath is denied the right to be merely human, or even merely complicated.