On Keith Richards: He's like a monkey with arthritis.

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.

Talk to each other. Never go to bed when you're angry with each other. Lady Antonia Frasier who was married to Harold Pinter said they never went to bed on an argument.

As a child, as a teenager, I was kind of not allowed to wear fashionable clothes.

You know, it's a very treatable disease. You shouldn't feel ashamed. But I'm afraid that's carried on very much so from the first days of AIDS, when it was basically a gay disease. And then, of course, you know, it affected everybody.

I'm glad I've given up drugs and alcohol. It would be awful to be like Keith Richards. He's pathetic. It's like a monkey with arthritis, trying to go onstage and look young.

Johnny, can't you come out to play in your empty garden?