From an old Wham! interview, George Michael reports:
"I'd never bothered with my appearance, but Andrew's been aware of his appearance all his life and he influenced me. I took my glasses off and got contact lenses. I started to worry about my hair and clothes and...I couldn't believe the difference it made. People started inviting me to parties."
I've always thought it was awful that how people look could influence how they were treated to that degree. It makes me feel terrible to read things like that--terrible for that boy, and for the people who were shallow enough to change their opinions of him for that reason, and for the man who has to live with that memory of how his value was assessed. (And it wasn't like he needed more cause for loneliness in his life to begin with.)
But then everyone is lonely, I guess. And doesn't it have its own special beauty. But...not like that, not when it comes wrapped in false acceptance. I don't think it's beautiful then.
