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" Everything I thought I'd hate about having children - the crying, the screaming - nothing fazes me. I love it all, and it's relaxed me. "
Elton John
Me
Love
Thought
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" People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The political response is appalling. The sadness of it, the waste. "
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" When your persona begins to take over your music and becomes more important, you enter a dangerous place. Once you have people around you who don't question you, you're in a dangerous place. "
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" I think performers are all show-offs anyway, especially musicians. Unless you show off, you're not going to get noticed. "
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" I'm addicted to working. I mean, I have a list of 100 countries I want to play in. I'm basically killing myself by travelling so much, for no reason whatsoever. "
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" I'm a great lover of children. I never thought that one day I'd actually be a father, but I'm very pleased that I changed my mind. Children are extremely important. They are the future of the world. "
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" And there's no guarantee that if you get HIV and you take these triple therapies, or whatever comes along next, that they're going to be successful for you. "
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" I'm a very wealthy man. "
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" 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. "
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" I am the biggest technophobe of all time. "
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" I used to get my money at the end of the week, buy my mum something, or buy a record, and that was it. "
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Money
End
" And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust. "
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Age
Day
" I was more ashamed that I couldn't work the washing machine than the fact that I was taking drugs. "
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Than
" I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano. "
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I Am
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" If there is a better singer in England than Craig David, then I am Margaret Thatcher. "
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" When people go to rehab and come out, they go through a difficult period, but I never had that. "
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Go
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" My mum always used to buy a record every Friday. "
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" I am so in the past. I'm such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano. "
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" Well, I've had my fair share in Britain of battling the tabloids. "
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" The great thing about small children is they're portable, so we take them everywhere, but when it comes to 2015, Zachary's going to school, and I want to be there to drop him off and pick him up. I don't want to just be the father who reads them a bedtime story. "
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" I've got a great collection of photography. "
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" When Little Richard used to stand up and play it was just fabulous, and Liberace had the candlesticks and the rings and the gift of the gab. The piano's is the most ungainly rock' n' roll instrument of all time but those two people transcended it, as did Jerry Lee Lewis. "
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" And I trusted someone to look after me on the business side of life. "
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" I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'm a good piano player, I can sing well, I write good songs. If you don't like it, fair enough. But give me a break. "
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" Well, I'm a huge fan of Ryan Adams, who's from North Carolina. And he's beginning to break really quite big. "
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" 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. "
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" I tour as many countries as possible, and I've toured every state in America, plus every province in Canada. "
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" I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later. "
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Always
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