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

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" 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. "

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

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

" I do like my rock stars to be a little larger than life. I don't mind the earnest ones at all, but I do like a bit of individuality. "

" I tour as many countries as possible, and I've toured every state in America, plus every province in Canada. "

" Simon Cowell and I are great friends, and we wind each other up. Rod Stewart and I do the same thing. "

" I'd always lived with people - my family, or had people living with me, because I'd never liked being on my own. "

" 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. "

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

" I've always been dead set against festivals - really suspicious and wary. "

" If I was to say what I am, I'd be a Labour man. I like Tony Blair a lot, I think he's a good man. And in America I'd definitely be a Democrat; I'd never be a Republican. "

" I'm very generous. "

" And the danger is - and it's happening - is we're seeing an incredibly big rise amongst young gay people, young heterosexual people as far as catching HIV, which is, you know, in an educated country like this or in Britain, it's frightening. "

" 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 never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later. "

" 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. "

" I could never go onstage in denims. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" At heart I've always been a music fan. That part of me has never changed since I was a little kid, sitting in a room watching a record go round, looking at the colour of the labels. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think performers are all show-offs anyway, especially musicians. Unless you show off, you're not going to get noticed. "

" 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. "