Elton John Quotes

And I talked to my doctor, and I must admit, you know, I'm sometimes quite renowned for my outbursts and I was just very frustrated, maybe a little frightened.

I tour as many countries as possible, and I've toured every state in America, plus every province in Canada.

This overload is edging me further out to sea, I need to put some distances between overkill and me.

It was also great to have the Backstreet Boys appear on stage with me because I have gotten to know them all a little bit just recently, and not only are they great performers, but they also very hard working professionals and really nice guys.

I think that's the graveyard of musicians, playing cabaret. I think I'd rather be dead than work in cabaret. It's just so depressing.

I do work a lot. I mean, most of my income, I would say, comes from live performances. And then you've got publishing, you've got record royalties.

I grew up in the Fifties and early Sixties, which were still quite conservative, and I wasn't given any information about sex or anything like that... I went out with girls at school because one had to. I didn't experiment with sex for quite a long time.

It's very important to have two tiaras when you're on the road. You never know when you'll be invited to something really formal.

When I say I don't have to write pop songs anymore, there's no way I'm going to get on the radio at 60 years of age unless I'm doing a duet with [Lady] Gaga or I was on All of the Lights, which was a Kanye West record that managed to get on the radio.

She's got electric boots, a mohair suit, you know I read it in a magazine.

People say, "You should write lyrics" and I say I'm quite happy not to, because I like being part of that process where you write your version of what someone else's lyrics are saying to you, and that enjoyment has never changed.

When we started, I was delivering meals to people in Atlanta. We were a direct-care organization. And it was - people needed meals, they needed transport, they needed medication, they needed buddy systems. They had a death sentence. There was AZT, and that was just prolonging the agony, basically. Now people, of course, if they are on antiretrovirals, they face a lifetime of health, basically. I mean, it doesn't - it's I would say in the 99 percent certainty bracket that if you are on that medication, you will have a healthy life.

I've always enjoyed and loved playing live. I relish and cherish it more than anything else because you never know what the performance is going to be.

Rocket Man, burning out his fuse up here alone.

I've watched other people singing, I've become a much better singer. I've become a singer that plays the piano instead of a piano player that sings.

I was never told a thing about sex. So I was very naive, as were my friends as well. But I - me so especially.

I knew about AIDS. My friends were dying right, left, and center. I did a record with Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder, and Gladys Knight. I did a couple of benefits.

Once you have people around you who don't question you, you're in a dangerous place.

He [george W. Bush] lived up - well, he was someone that I wouldn't have voted for. His policies were not mine.

Ever since I had that interview in which I said I was bisexual it seems twice as many people wave at me in the streets.

Well, I quit those days and my redneck ways.

Hold me closer tiny dancer, count the headlights on the highway. Lay me down in sheets of linen, you had a busy day today.

I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later.

I was sitting in the classroom trying to look intelligent in case the teacher looked at me.

And I agreed with that, and I couldn't wait to change my name anyway, because I'm not too fond of the name of Reginald. It's a very kind of '50s English name.

An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.

Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving.

A great editor is the most valuable thing you can have as an artist because, as you said, sometimes you get too close to something. I think, apart from your talent, that's why you have the career you have - because you have great people behind you.

I've reached the stage of my life where learning is so important to me. I go through the past enough when I play my old songs on stage. And I don't mind doing that. But I want to think about the future.

My mum always used to buy a record every Friday.

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

I lived my teenage years in my 20s when I sort of left home and became Elton John success, then it became Elton John excess... Everything I couldn't do when I was younger I did 10 times over. I was having the time of my life. I was becoming the person that I wanted to be.

I'm not walking around the stage, I'm not moving.

If there's a God in heaven, what's he waiting for? If He can't hear the children, then he must see the war.

How wonderful life is while you're in the world

I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.

Shock waves to a tired brain, sends that hungry lady to my door again. She's my shelter from the storm when I feel the rain, entertaining white powder.

I find that so many of my peers of my age don't listen to anything new. But I love the new. I love the energy of the new, the energy of the new act. The young are so important. The young give you the energy, and if you don't notice the young, and you don't give them credit and you don't listen to all sorts of music, then you're missing out on something.

Tina Turner gave me the highway blues.

Cocaine made me talk forever. The most nonsensical rubbish that you could ever think of.

I guess that's why they call it the blues, time on my hands could be time spent with you.

I rarely wear tennis shoes. I'm 5' 8', I hate being short.

I do like Britney Spears. I think she's cute. I think she's fun. And I like her records. You know, I'm not a pop snob whatsoever. I think she makes great pop records.

I've got to think about what I'm going to say very carefully. There's two avenues of thought: Do you stop everyone going, ban all the artists coming in from Russia? But then you're really leaving the men and women who are gay and suffering under the antigay laws in an isolated situation. As a gay man, I can't leave those people on their own without going over there and supporting them. I don't know what's going to happen, but I've got to go.

My mantra is if you raise money, don't waste it.

Don't show up around here until your social worker's helped.

If there is a better singer in England than Craig David, then I am Margaret Thatcher.

I love to work. It fascinates me. And I love seeing who's coming up, who's got the charisma to last, who's got the intelligence to move on to other things. I'm so glad now that I'm stuck behind the piano, because when you're getting older it's very hard to waddle around the stage.