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 can't think of anything until I've got printed words in front of me. I never wake up in the middle of the night with a song in my head.

I want a love that don't mean a thing.

I rarely wear tennis shoes. I'm 5' 8', I hate being short.

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.

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.

I had a little Richard and that black piano, oh that sweet Georgia Peach, and the boy form Tupelo.