Quotes By Elton John

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

The worst thing you can do to a child, and I've seen it happen so many times, is the silver spoon.

I've got a great collection of photography.

I went to a mixed school and I can't remember being bullied at school, ever. I was quite large, in those days. Usually, if you're going to be a bully, you'll pick on someone who is small. I didn't bully anybody, and I don't remember being bullied.

Well, as I was saying... everyone's so nice to me, usually.

I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano.

The whole point of being in this business and being blessed and being successful is that you're able to do things for your friends or your family, which means that they can have something special in their lives, too.

There is nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex. People should be very free with sex, they should draw the line at goats.

I have a much better relationship with the press than I did, I think because I stood my ground.

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.

Fame attracts lunatics.

I'm a very wealthy man.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.