...I'm so over the tattoos and the T-shirts and rings through the noses. It's not pretty, it's not pleasant, it's not exciting. Please stop it now.

Instead of more violence why isn't there a [meeting of religious leaders]. It's all got to be dialogue - that's the only way. Get everybody from each religion together and say 'Listen, this can't go on. Why do we have all this hatred?'

I've dodged so many bullets. Not just because of unsafe sex, but because of the amount of drugs I did, the amount of alcohol, the amount of work I was doing. I started the Elton John AIDS Foundation because I got so lucky.

On a street of right and wrong in every inch of sadness, rocks and tanks go hand in hand with madness.

I am the most well-known homosexual in the world.

You can call me a fat, balding, talentless old queen who can't sing, but you can't tell lies about me.

Anyone who lip-synchs in public on stage when you pay 75 pounds to see them should be shot.