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

One reason I quit doing interviews after years and years and years was because I was making things up.

The worst thing about me is that I'll buy albums and put them away on the shelf and forget that I've got them.

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.

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.