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" I mean, Sting is one of my great buddies and I love him to death. "

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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. "

" Fame attracts lunatics. "

" I'm a very wealthy man. "

" 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. "

" I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately. As children, we tend to copy our parents. "

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

" I was just genuinely shy. I'd always been a shy kid. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Well, I was making a record, and I had to choose a name, because they said, you know, you can't make a record under the name of Reg Dwight, because it's never going to - you know, it's not attractive enough. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I heard Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, and that was it. I didn't ever want to be anything else. I just started banging away and semi-studied classical music at the Royal Academy of Music but sort of half-heartedly. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. I don't know what makes people so cruel. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust. "

" 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. "

" 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. "