Quotes By Elton John

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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'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.

I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love.

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

Who really needs a new album from me?

The thing about Vegas is, I don't have to fly anywhere, and that really helps. It means I stay in one place for three weeks at a time instead of flying backwards and forwards.