Quotes By Elton John

I was just genuinely shy. I'd always been a shy kid.

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 love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.

Fame attracts lunatics.

I'm a very wealthy man.

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 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've got to do something to make up for all those self-absorbed and selfish years when I just, you know, was taking drugs, sitting in my room, doing bad things, whatever.

But actually, my drug addiction thing, I was so stubborn.

I loathe celebrity. I can't stand it.

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!

Well, I'm a huge fan of Ryan Adams, who's from North Carolina. And he's beginning to break really quite big.

I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately.

Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving.

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

I mean, Sting is one of my great buddies and I love him to death.

Well, I've had my fair share in Britain of battling the tabloids.

If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything. Songs will outlast the artist and they will go on for ever if they are good.

We were both very much the same. We were both very impulsive. We both loved life. We both loved shopping. We both had a love of clothes, obviously, because he was the designer that I kind of wore forever and ever.

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

I never really made a full album in Los Angeles before.

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.

And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust.

I grew up at my grandmother's house and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you're a kid.

I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them.

And the danger is - and it's happening - is we're seeing an incredibly big rise amongst young gay people, young heterosexual people as far as catching HIV, which is, you know, in an educated country like this or in Britain, it's frightening.

I think people should be free to engage in any sexual practices they choose; they should draw the line at goats though.

The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.

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

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