Sitting at the dining-room table of his plush Manhattan hotel suite, cloaked in layers of black down to the shiny metal tips on his needle-nose boots, George Michael is uncharacteristically hesitant as he searches for an appropriate euphemism. “There’s no doubt in my mind that I would be taken far more seriously as a song-writer if I was not, let’s say – it’s very difficult to find the words here. If I was not particularly presentable, put it that way.” The crease between his thick eyebrows, which gives him an almost permanently dour look, is smoothed by a smile.
“I’d definitely get more respect if I was a little uglier. It’s a fact of life,” he continues. “If you do have a physical advantage, people will ignore the fact that maybe you have other advantages in ability that put you where you are. My biggest problem in being accepted as a writer and performer is that I’ve made it look too easy. Because I look and present myself a certain way, there don’t seem to be any cracks.”
SOURCE: George Michael: Artist or Airhead? (Musician, 1988)
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