Even though I've been reasonably well known for quite a long time, I still can't get a record on daytime radio or on MTV.

The Queen is the ultimate dictator.

I would rather eat my own testicles than reform The Smiths, and that's saying something for a vegetarian.

Yes I have had a tan, actually. I went to Los Angeles and got one there, but it didn't make it back to Britain. You're not allowed to come through customs with a tan.

Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears.

This position I've held ... it pays may way and it corrodes my soul.

He [Elton John] is pushing his face in all the time and telling us about his private life. Nobody's interested. He should just go away.