Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day.

I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.

We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It's just beginning. When I think of the possibilities, it makes me smile.

You're the first, the last, and my everything and the answer to all my dreams. You're my sun, my moon, my guiding star, my kind of wonderful, that's what you are

I try to tell a story musically in a song.

As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.

I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.