Elton John Quotes

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.

Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. I don't know what makes people so cruel.

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.

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

When I say I don't have to write pop songs anymore, there's no way I'm going to get on the radio at 60 years of age unless I'm doing a duet with Gaga or I was on 'All of the Lights,' which was a Kanye West record that managed to get on the radio.

The great thing about small children is they're portable, so we take them everywhere, but when it comes to 2015, Zachary's going to school, and I want to be there to drop him off and pick him up. I don't want to just be the father who reads them a bedtime story.

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 never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever. I always felt like an outsider.

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 loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens.

I've always wanted to smash a guitar over someone's head. You just can't do that with a piano.

I've got a great collection of photography.

At heart I've always been a music fan. That part of me has never changed since I was a little kid, sitting in a room watching a record go round, looking at the colour of the labels.

I love every minute of fatherhood, staying up all night, changing nappies, kids crying, I find it really funny and inspiring. It connects you to the world in a new way.

If I was to say what I am, I'd be a Labour man. I like Tony Blair a lot, I think he's a good man. And in America I'd definitely be a Democrat; I'd never be a Republican.

I loathe celebrity. I can't stand it.

I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.

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

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!

There's a lot of hate in the world.

I have a much better relationship with the press than I did, I think because I stood my ground.

I think performers are all show-offs anyway, especially musicians. Unless you show off, you're not going to get noticed.

I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately. As children, we tend to copy our parents.

I'm a great lover of children. I never thought that one day I'd actually be a father, but I'm very pleased that I changed my mind. Children are extremely important. They are the future of the world.

Yeah. I have been with David Furnish for eight years, now.

An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.

Well, as I was saying... everyone's so nice to me, usually.

I do like my rock stars to be a little larger than life. I don't mind the earnest ones at all, but I do like a bit of individuality.

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.

For me, music is so passionate, I have to give it my all every time I go onstage. Onstage, it was always comfortable for me, because that's where I felt at home.

I'm lucky enough and wealthy enough to be able to buy photographs and buy art that inspires me from day to day. I don't want a Picasso on my wall; it's great art, but it's dead art to me. I'd rather have a photograph by someone I've never heard of that really inspires me.

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

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

We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.

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.

I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life. I love the food. I love the people. I love the attitudes of Italians.

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

My mum always used to buy a record every Friday.

The worst thing you can do to a child, and I've seen it happen so many times, is the silver spoon.

And there's no guarantee that if you get HIV and you take these triple therapies, or whatever comes along next, that they're going to be successful for you.

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

When Little Richard used to stand up and play it was just fabulous, and Liberace had the candlesticks and the rings and the gift of the gab. The piano's is the most ungainly rock' n' roll instrument of all time but those two people transcended it, as did Jerry Lee Lewis.

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

I have no one to leave the money to. I'm a single man. I like spending my money.

I rarely wear tennis shoes. I'm 5' 8', I hate being short.

I'm so proud to be on a Kate Bush record; she's always marched to the beat of her own drum.

I just go into the studio, look at the lyrics for the first time when I put them on the piano, and go. If I haven't got it within 40 minutes, I give up. It's never changed, the thrill has never gone, because I don't know what I'm going to get next.

I've never been jealous of anybody's success. I've been flummoxed by it because I don't understand it, but I'm not jealous of it.

As a child, as a teenager, I was kind of not allowed to wear fashionable clothes.