I lived my teenage years in my 20s when I sort of left home and became Elton John success, then it became Elton John excess... Everything I couldn't do when I was younger I did 10 times over. I was having the time of my life. I was becoming the person that I wanted to be.

The French are useless. They can't organize a piss-up in a brewery.

I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love.

My sex drive has gone down so much since I've stopped doing coke. I was one of the few people that, when I did coke, I had an enormous sex drive. I still have a healthy sex life today, but it's not so important.

I love the way the American trade magazines never give anybody a bad review because they're afraid the advertising will be taken out. It's so hysterical.

Don't show up around here until your social worker's helped.

I've got that resilient thing inside me. But I wasn't a happy bunny.