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've always been a fan, so my enthusiasm has always been great, but it's never going to be the same as it was from 1970 to 1975. You cannot repeat that, but you can get inspired by searching, by being mystified.

I am the most well-known homosexual in the world.

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.

Anyone who lip-synchs in public on stage when you pay 75 pounds to see them should be shot.

I'm 27 years clean, and when you get clean, you see things in a different way. It makes your life so much more manageable.

And it's one more beer and I don't hear you any more.