Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.

Elton John's home is laden with trinkets and books relating to Satanism and witchcraft.

'Captain Fantastic' was the first album in history to enter the (American) album chart at number one. We did it for a second time after that. Now that's not a boast, that's frightening.

Lincolnshire is the Idaho of England. You were either going to drive a tractor for the rest of your life or head for the city to work in a factory.

Early risers catch the world waking and see its true colors.

My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I'd be Horatius keeping the bridge.

My favorite thing is coming up with titles. The majority of the songs I've every written I've always thought of the title before I've written the song.