Chris: A friend of mine said, because I talked to him about the conversation we had over dinner with him, a good friend of mine, knows a lot about music, been in the music business for a long time, written for the papers, when they were good, for about eight or nine years. And I said to him, one of the things you were terribly worried about, you said this to me, was that you are petrified of losing your talent to write songs, because you’ve seen some people, no names, your words, you’ve seen them lose it. Do you think then you’re facing two deaths, the scary thing about death is that it’s inevitable, one is a mortal death, and are you saying that you face another premature death as a popular globally renowned musician and songwriter.
George: I would say that one of my obsessions now is to make sure that I only have the one death to deal with.
Chris: So you want to go all the way?
George: I want to go all the way, I want to work until the day I die, I want to have
SOURCE: An Audience with George Michael: Interview with Chris Evans (1996)