Elton John Quotes

The world is near escalating to World War Three and where are the leaders of each religion? Why aren't they having a conclave; why aren't they coming together?

I'd walk a million miles to give her what she needs. But she would walk a million more to do what she believes.

Loneliness was tough, the toughest role you ever played. Hollywood created a superstar, and pain was the price you paid.

I like Stevie Wonder. I usually wind up playing the same old tapes in the car.

I'm a juvenile product of the working class, who's best friend floats in the bottom of a glass.

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

I loathe celebrity. I can't stand it.

I went up to Prince and said 'I'm a big fan of your stuff' and he looked at me and just walked off...left me standing there like a ****. He's a prat, but a clever prat.

I still want to play music but I don't want to look like Donald Duck while I'm doing it.

George W. Bush was passionate about AIDS. And we had a 10-minute talk at the interval of a concert at the Kennedy Center about AIDS. And I was astonished about how well-informed he was and his commitment to AIDS. And so it's the typical thing of don't judge a book by its cover until you have read the book.

I spent the last week of Ryan's life in Indiana, Indianapolis, with Jeanne and Andrea, Jeanne, his mother, Andrea, his sister, and some other beautiful people who came. And it taught me a lesson.

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

When people go to rehab and come out, they go through a difficult period, a lot of people. I never had that. I was so glad to be rid of all that crap that for me, to learn again and to function as a human being and learn how to participate in the human race again was just pure joy.

I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems. On the cross, he forgave the people who crucified him. Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. I don't know what makes people so cruel. Try being a gay woman in the Middle East -- you're as good as dead.

I was more ashamed that I couldn't work the washing machine than the fact that I was taking drugs.

I am totally against the war but violence is part of mankind and it's going to happen, but as musicians I think we've got to step up and say 'come on'.

I'm going to fight for human rights, whether I do it silently behind the scenes or vocally so that I get locked up. I can't just sit back; it's not in my nature. I can't sit back and blindly ignore it, and I won't.

You know, no one should be marginalized in society when it comes to health. And, you know, we have - as a foundation, we have tried to champion those people [sex workers, needle users, intravenous drug users, prostitutes] and be by - be by their side and say, listen, these people cannot be forgotten. If you forget about them, then the disease is never going to go away.

I really appreciate my performing so much better, as I get older. I don't take it for granted anymore. I really relish it and love it.

I cannot bear successful people who are miserable.

Don't be afraid to let her into your heart and when your down, don't try to carry the whole world on your shoulders.

In my 20s I was so ignorant about drugs, and so naive. I mean, my band was smoking marijuana for years; I didn't even know what a joint was. And I'd never seen a line of cocaine in my life. And I don't know whether it was bravado or - OK, I'll join in. But my stupidity, I had a line of coke, and that started the whole process.

I've always been dead set against festivals, really suspicious and wary.

I think performers are all show-offs anyway, especially musicians. Unless you show off, you're not going to get noticed.

If you're stuck at piano and you're not a lead guitarist or a lead vocalist, you're kind of at a nine-foot plank then and you should do something about it.

Sometimes you can't see the wood for the trees as an artist.

I love drag queens and I love going to see them perform because those people have got so much character and bravery. Such balls! I love people with balls.

The work became like the drug addiction, the clothes, anything in my life. It became - it's become an addiction. I'm addicted to working.

I wasn't involved in anything. I wasn't out - you know, I know I wasn't in ACT UP. I wasn't with Larry Kramer. I wasn't by his side. I wasn't saying what I should do, because, by all accounts, I was a drug addict and an alcoholic. And I was living in a complete bubble of self-absorption.

You get the same equal rights that we do when we have a civil partnership. Heterosexual people get married. We can have civil partnerships.

They're [[harmaceuticals companies] just making a killing out of people's death. And they're benefiting by people's suffering. And I find that obscene. I find it ridiculous in this day and age, that that would happen. And it took President Clinton to go to rogue pharmaceutical companies to copy the antiretroviral drugs for a fraction of the cost.

I've had an amazing professional life, personal life, but at 64 to have a son who gives us that much love and enjoyment is, wow!

Drunk all the time, feeling fine on elderberry wine.

The less I say the more my work gets done.

Rock and roll came in and changed my life and changed the whole music scene forever, and then I grew to love R&B and Motown and all black music, gospel music. But I never dismiss any form of music. I listen to everything.

I think religion has always tried to turn hatred towards gay people. Religion promotes the hatred and spite against gays. But there are so many Christian people I know who are gay and love their religion...

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.

I've been coming to America since 1970, and it's like my second home, but I've never felt such a divided country, ever. I didn't think it would get to this point, and it breaks my heart.

When Little Richard used to stand up and play it was just fabulous, and Liberace had the candlesticks and the rings and the gift of the gab. The piano's is the most ungainly rock' n' roll instrument of all time but those two people transcended it, as did Jerry Lee Lewis.

Love is the key we must turn, truth is the flame we must burn.

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

Sometimes when I’m flying over the Alps I think, 'that’s like all the cocaine I sniffed.'

Don't let the sun go down on me.

On a street of right and wrong in every inch of sadness, rocks and tanks go hand in hand with madness.

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.

This is a tremendous assest for the club, a tremendous headache lifted from our shoulders, really.

I don't have a computer. I am the Luddite of rock'n'roll, I don't have a portable phone. I write things down.

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