I've watched other people singing, I've become a much better singer. I've become a singer that plays the piano instead of a piano player that sings.

If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything.

Rocket Man, burning out his fuse up here alone.

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.

I've only been interested in the artistic side of life.

Poor cow, you'll get your dumb man. You'll see your whole life coming at you in the back of his hand.

I don't want to be married. I'm very happy with a civil partnership. If gay people want to get married, or get together, they should have a civil partnership. The word 'marriage,' I think, puts a lot of people off. You get the same equal rights that we do when we have a civil partnership. Heterosexual people get married. We can have civil partnerships.