I’ll not complain about your boring life, if you just leave me to mine

I'm not bored with my life. I'm not just making the records and touring, I would find that boring.

I've always enjoyed and loved playing live. I relish and cherish it more than anything else because you never know what the performance is going to be.

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.

It's very important to have two tiaras when you're on the road. You never know when you'll be invited to something really formal.

The worst thing you can do to a child, and I've seen it happen so many times, is the silver spoon.

The only thing the record companies put out now is 'Best of,'