Quotes By Elton John

I loathe celebrity. I can't stand it.

I've had an amazing professional life, personal life, but at 64 to have a son who gives us that much love and enjoyment is, wow!

Well, I'm a huge fan of Ryan Adams, who's from North Carolina. And he's beginning to break really quite big.

I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately.

Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving.

I have a lot of money stashed away, but I do live my life from day to day.

I mean, Sting is one of my great buddies and I love him to death.

If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything. Songs will outlast the artist and they will go on for ever if they are good.

Well, I've had my fair share in Britain of battling the tabloids.

I've only been interested in the artistic side of life.

We were both very much the same. We were both very impulsive. We both loved life. We both loved shopping. We both had a love of clothes, obviously, because he was the designer that I kind of wore forever and ever.

I never really made a full album in Los Angeles before.

Because, I figured that, because I was a successful man, I was wealthy, I was, you know, seemingly intelligent - even that I am not intelligent enough to ask for help.

And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust.

I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them.

I grew up at my grandmother's house and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you're a kid.

I think people should be free to engage in any sexual practices they choose; they should draw the line at goats though.

And the danger is - and it's happening - is we're seeing an incredibly big rise amongst young gay people, young heterosexual people as far as catching HIV, which is, you know, in an educated country like this or in Britain, it's frightening.

The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.

I've got that resilient thing inside me. But I wasn't a happy bunny.

I never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever.

I was more ashamed that I couldn't work the washing machine than the fact that I was taking drugs.

I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano.

There's no pressure for me to go out there and say, I've got to have a top 40 hit because it's not going to happen.

The whole point of being in this business and being blessed and being successful is that you're able to do things for your friends or your family, which means that they can have something special in their lives, too.

There is nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex. People should be very free with sex, they should draw the line at goats.

And I talked to my doctor, and I must admit, you know, I'm sometimes quite renowned for my outbursts and I was just very frustrated, maybe a little frightened.

I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love.

I am the most well-known homosexual in the world.

The thing about Vegas is, I don't have to fly anywhere, and that really helps. It means I stay in one place for three weeks at a time instead of flying backwards and forwards.