People say, "You should write lyrics" and I say I'm quite happy not to, because I like being part of that process where you write your version of what someone else's lyrics are saying to you, and that enjoyment has never changed.

Someone saved my life tonight, sugar bear, you almost had your hooks in me, didn't you dear?

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

He [george W. Bush] lived up - well, he was someone that I wouldn't have voted for. His policies were not mine.

Well, we can't leave anyone behind just because they are sex workers or they are needle users, intravenous drug users, prostitutes.

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.

Drunk all the time, feeling fine on elderberry wine.