I used to get my money at the end of the week, buy my mum something, or buy a record, and that was it.

I'm cold as a razor blade, inches from madness.

I love people who expect me to wear great, feathery costumes- and I do it. It's like an actor getting into his costume for his part. I don't really feel that part until I'm into whatever I'm going to wear.

You can beat her, but don't mistreat her. Oh, don't believe that woman please.

If I was to say what I am, I'd be a Labour man. I like Tony Blair a lot, I think he's a good man. And in America I'd definitely be a Democrat; I'd never be a Republican.

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.

It took a child. It took a child with a blood transfusion not only to wake me up, but to wake America up, basically. I mean, I read about his plight in a doctor's office in New York in a magazine. I was so outraged about it that I contacted the family. We became friends. I helped them move to another place in Indiana. And we became constant friends.