Elton John Quotes

I'm 57, I can't look like a 30-year-old. You try to hold age at bay, but there comes a point when you just have to give up gracefully.

I don't think you can recreate anything from the past. You can not do it. If you're going to go out and imitate a Motown sound, you can't do it, it's impossible because of the studios and players involved and the atmosphere.

Well, we can't leave anyone behind just because they are sex workers or they are needle users, intravenous drug users, prostitutes.

Love's like a junkie, addiction's a fact. Passion's a monkey, you can't keep off your back.

If you don't understand hip-hop, you just have to see it being recorded.

I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens.

I just wish more of my fellow queers would come out sometimes. It's nice out here, you know?

Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers.

It's much too late to save myself from falling.

I'm a very wealthy man.

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

I do like my rock stars to be a little larger than life. I don't mind the earnest ones at all, but I do like a bit of individuality.

When stars collide, like you and I, no shadow blocks the sun" - The One

It'll take you a couple of vodka and tonics to set you on your feet again.

I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems.

I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano.

I'm the ultimate record fan. I still go out and buy records.

Make this man a saint now, OK?

When a rumor doesn't go away it's not a rumor

Dave and I as a couple seem to be the acceptable face of gayness, and that's great. I've got to use that power to try and do what I can - or we have - to try to make the situations in Russia and Poland better.

I get high in the evening sniffing pots of glue.

Someone saved my life tonight, sugar bear, you almost had your hooks in me, didn't you dear?

I've got a great collection of photography.

Basically, I wanted redemption for the way I lived my life beforehand, and that was the drugs, the drink, the loose sex, whatever.

The French are useless. They can't organize a piss-up in a brewery.

It turned out so well because it was the first album that I could identify with in terms of lyrics. ("Captain Fantastic") It was passionate...I could associate myself with every song...It's a unique album in our history. This was the story of us..."Curtains", the lyrics to that are so beautiful because it sums up our friendship so much, and our relationship.

And the stigma hasn't really changed that much in 31 years. You are still getting people - it's a shame-based disease. It's based on sexual transmission. And it's still shame-based. And until people feel strong enough and feel loved enough to actually open up and say, listen, I'm HIV-positive, then we are facing an uphill battle.

My sex drive has gone down so much since I've stopped doing coke. I was one of the few people that, when I did coke, I had an enormous sex drive. I still have a healthy sex life today, but it's not so important.

If people are encouraged to come out and say they're HIV-positive and they're given their treatments, then obviously, the people who are marginalized - like intravenous drug users, prisoners, people are made to feel less-than - if they're given the support of the government, and they're given the funding, then it's going to help solve the spread of AIDS and HIV in America.

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.

For me music is so passionate. I have to give it my all every time I go onstage.

I'm very relaxed. I'm very happy with my personal life.

Because, I figured that, because I was a successful man, I was wealthy, I was, you know, seemingly intelligent - even that I am not intelligent enough to ask for help.

I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life, I love the food, I love the people, I love the attitudes of Italians.

I never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever.

The AIDS disease is caused by a virus, but the AIDS epidemic is not. The AIDS epidemic is fueled by stigma, by hate, by misinformation, by ignorance, by indifference. Science has accomplished miracles over the past 20 years, and science can now end this disease - but it cannot end the epidemic. We need more than medicine. We can do something about these things. We need to speak out about the changes we need to make in our society.

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

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

I'll even pay sometimes for a woman that's ugly.

Once I'd heard 'Modern Times' by Bob Dylan, it really changed the way I wanted to make records.

I've got that resilient thing inside me. But I wasn't a happy bunny.

People still think of AIDS as a shame-based disease, it's a sexually transmitted disease, and you're either gay or you're a prostitute or an intravenous drug user. And so a lot of people are still very bigoted about this disease. It's such a treatable disease. It's so - the end is in sight for this disease, medically.

I have a lot of money stashed away, but I do live my life from day to day.

I love the way the American trade magazines never give anybody a bad review because they're afraid the advertising will be taken out. It's so hysterical.

Poor cow, you'll get your dumb man. You'll see your whole life coming at you in the back of his hand.

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.

I've only been interested in the artistic side of life.

I had progressed on stage as a performer, but I hadn't progressed as a human being.