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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. "
Elton John
Fun
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" I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano. "
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" 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. "
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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'd always lived with people - my family, or had people living with me, because I'd never liked being on my own. "
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" I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens. "
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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 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. "
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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've never been jealous of anybody's success. I've been flummoxed by it because I don't understand it, but I'm not jealous of it. "
Elton John
Never
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Jealous
" I'm lucky enough and wealthy enough to be able to buy photographs and buy art that inspires me from day to day. I don't want a Picasso on my wall; it's great art, but it's dead art to me. I'd rather have a photograph by someone I've never heard of that really inspires me. "
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Someone
Me
" I loathe celebrity. I can't stand it. "
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Stand
Loathe
" 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. "
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Accept
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" 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 loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. "
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Love
You
" I've never had a writer's block, but still I think: 'Is it going to happen this time?' You never know what you're going to get; you just put your fingers on the keys and hope. "
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Hope
Know
" Who really needs a new album from me? "
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Really
" 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. "
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" I could never go onstage in denims. "
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Go
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" I have no one to leave the money to. I'm a single man. I like spending my money. "
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Single
Like
Leave
" I'm so proud to be on a Kate Bush record; she's always marched to the beat of her own drum. "
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Always
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" I am the most well-known homosexual in the world. "
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Most
Well-Known
" When people go to rehab and come out, they go through a difficult period, but I never had that. "
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Never
Go
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" When I say I don't have to write pop songs anymore, there's no way I'm going to get on the radio at 60 years of age unless I'm doing a duet with Gaga or I was on 'All of the Lights,' which was a Kanye West record that managed to get on the radio. "
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" 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. "
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" Once I'd heard 'Modern Times' by Bob Dylan, it really changed the way I wanted to make records. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm very relaxed. I have a family, I have a partner of 20 years, I have a wonderful life; nothing could be better. "
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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 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. "
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Legal
Action
" I am the biggest technophobe of all time. "
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Biggest
Am
I Am
" 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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