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.

Read books, discover the blues and don't Tweet.

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

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

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.

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.