George Michael Quotes

I think the deepest problem is between my parents and me. I just don't know if it will ever be the same.

It seemed like my father and I were always fighting. I know a lot of kids go through that with their families, but it was hard for me.

Who hasn't had an argument with their mother-in-law?

Sometimes my mother had difficulty communicating with me about certain topics.

I don't like my parents; I never will. I didn't cry at either of their funerals. I haven't missed them for five seconds. I didn't - you know, our characters were so at odds with one another right from the beginning. But I do understand them now as human beings, with the understanding of an adult.

If you are going through something with one of your parents, you know that there is this feeling inside you constantly that something is wrong. Even if you want to pretend that it doesn't matter to you or you don't care, the truth of the matter is that you do, because they are your parents and you love them.

I'm attracted to how fraught the parent-child relationship is, swerving so easily between love and hostility, with almost no plausible way to end, unless someone dies.

I just wish I could understand my father.

Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication.

One interviewer asked me: 'How do you feel that you've betrayed your father?' That wasn't really very cool.

My relationship with my mom is really bad.

I couldn't handle the pain and confusion surrounding my dad's divorce, and I was having a hard time balancing being a teenager with pursuing two different grown-up careers.

I have been driven to the edge by parental alienation for many years now. You have to go through this to understand.

I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.

I certainly feel sad about the alienation from my son.

My mom's mission my entire teenage years was just to save my life.

My daughter is a bit annoyed with me that she didn't get to meet Baby Yoda.

My background's Arab and I'm quite fiery, stubborn and used to shouting and expressing myself quite loudly, and Inez and I have our little fall-outs as mum and daughters do.

I love my mom so much, and I always have, but I was definitely a monster to her a lot during my teen years.

That's something that I struggled with - talking to my mother about some of the problems that I had.

We have arguments [with my father] and we had a lot of arguments in the years when I was at Michigan.

You can have a good moment with a parent you are estranged from, and you have a great moment, and then the next time you see them, everything's back to the way it was before and you guys are throwing knives at each other.

My father and I, we can't soothe each other. I'm too young, he's too old, and we don't know how to talk anymore if we ever did

My father and I were always on the most distant terms when I was a boy--a sort of armed neutrality, so to speak. At irregular intervals this neutrality was broken, and suffering ensued; but I will be candid enough to say that the breaking and the suffering were always divided up with strict impartiality between us--which is to say, my father did the breaking, and I did the suffering.

I think the father-son dynamic is interesting. I don't have a male friend who hasn't had some kind of conflict with their dad, and I don't have a male friend who hasn't had some kind of conflict with their son.