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" I never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever. "
Elton John
Handsome
Myself
Thought
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" 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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Work
Book
Beautiful
" I've always been dead set against festivals - really suspicious and wary. "
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Dead
Festivals
Against
" 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. "
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You
Know
Enough
" 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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Say
Always
First
" I have a much better relationship with the press than I did, I think because I stood my ground. "
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Relationship
Did
Ground
" I'm a very wealthy man. "
Elton John
Wealthy
Very
Man
" 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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Music
People
Place
" 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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Know
Legal
Action
" I rarely wear tennis shoes. I'm 5' 8', I hate being short. "
Elton John
Hate
Short
Wear
" It's just so wonderful to have someone in the house like a child to turn your attention to. It's not about you anymore, it's about this lovely little human being. "
Elton John
Attention
You
Someone
" I loathe celebrity. I can't stand it. "
Elton John
Celebrity
Stand
Loathe
" 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. "
Elton John
Music
Looking
Sitting
" Well, I'm a huge fan of Ryan Adams, who's from North Carolina. And he's beginning to break really quite big. "
Elton John
He
North Carolina
Well
" 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. "
Elton John
Future
Children
Day
" 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. "
Elton John
Gardening
Love
You
" Who really needs a new album from me? "
Elton John
Who
New
Really
" My mum always used to buy a record every Friday. "
Elton John
Used
Friday
Always
" 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. "
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Help
Successful
You
" I never really made a full album in Los Angeles before. "
Elton John
Before
Made
Never
" I was more ashamed that I couldn't work the washing machine than the fact that I was taking drugs. "
Elton John
Fact
Ashamed
Than
" And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust. "
Elton John
Trust
Age
Day
" I've only been interested in the artistic side of life. "
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Side
Life
Been
" 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
Difficult
" Once I'd heard 'Modern Times' by Bob Dylan, it really changed the way I wanted to make records. "
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Changed
Modern
Records
" 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'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! "
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Amazing
Son
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. "
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Say
Go
Going
" 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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Fun
You
Think
" Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. I don't know what makes people so cruel. "
Elton John
Jesus
Cruel
Loving