It was Elvis that got me interested in music. I've been an Elvis fan since I was a kid.

You can cage the songbird, but you can't make her sing. And you can trap the free bird, but you'll have to clip her wings.

But we came for the Kennedy Center Awards, which was an incredible honor. Being a British person, I was bestowed this honor. And my partner and I, David, came. And we were so pleasantly surprised by George Bush and his knowledge of AIDS. He really - he treated David and I - and Laura - treated us like - they were so friendly and so courteous.

He [Ryan White] had a kind of angelic aura about him. And his family, too, it's like, they are going through all this suffering, and I'm living this "Life of Riley" and I'm complaining about everything, and they are living this horrific life and complaining about nothing.

As Elton John, my days on pop radio are over, and I know that and I accept it and I'm not unhappy about it.

What record companies do these days is drain the blood dry of an album, take six singles off it, and harm the longevity of artists' careers by doing it.

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