Quotes By Elton John

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.

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

We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.

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

I loathe celebrity. I can't stand it.

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

And I trusted someone to look after me on the business side of life.

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.

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

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

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

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

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.

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 never really made a full album in Los Angeles before.

Yeah. I have been with David Furnish for eight years, now.

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

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

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

I have no one to leave the money to. I'm a single man. I like spending my money.

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

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.

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

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

There's no pressure for me to go out there and say, I've got to have a top 40 hit because it's not going to happen.

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 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.