And I agreed with that, and I couldn't wait to change my name anyway, because I'm not too fond of the name of Reginald. It's a very kind of '50s English name.

I don't want to spend the rest of my life talking about when I used to drink or when I used to take drugs. I'm more interested in the future.

We have a society where every hit maker and TV presenter is gay.

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.

And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust.

I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano.

We can't keep thinking of gay people as being ostracised; we can't keep thinking of Muslim people as being [ostracised] because of the fundamentalism that occurs in Islam. Muslim people have to do something about speaking up about it. We can't judge a book by its cover.