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" I rarely wear tennis shoes. I'm 5' 8', I hate being short. "
Elton John
Hate
Short
Wear
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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. "
Elton John
Say
Always
First
" I have a lot of money stashed away, but I do live my life from day to day. "
Elton John
Away
Life
Live
" For me, music is so passionate, I have to give it my all every time I go onstage. Onstage, it was always comfortable for me, because that's where I felt at home. "
Elton John
Go
Time
Me
" There's a lot of hate in the world. "
Elton John
Hate
Lot
World
" 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. "
Elton John
I Can
Myself
Musicians
" 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. "
Elton John
Me
Tea
Good
" Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours. "
Elton John
Ability
People
Healing
" 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
You
Think
" I never really made a full album in Los Angeles before. "
Elton John
Before
Made
Never
" And I trusted someone to look after me on the business side of life. "
Elton John
Someone
Life
Business
" Simon Cowell and I are great friends, and we wind each other up. Rod Stewart and I do the same thing. "
Elton John
Up
Great
Other
" 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. "
Elton John
Business
Family
Friends
" But you know, I have a pretty good relationship with the press and the paparazzi. It's just when they step over the line that, you know, enough's enough. "
Elton John
Relationship
Step
Good
" 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 think performers are all show-offs anyway, especially musicians. Unless you show off, you're not going to get noticed. "
Elton John
Musicians
You
Off
" I'm so proud to be on a Kate Bush record; she's always marched to the beat of her own drum. "
Elton John
Proud
Always
She
" 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. "
Elton John
Want
Started
Royal
" Well, as I was saying... everyone's so nice to me, usually. "
Elton John
Me
Saying
Well
" If there is a better singer in England than Craig David, then I am Margaret Thatcher. "
Elton John
Am
I Am
Singer
" 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
" Yeah. I have been with David Furnish for eight years, now. "
Elton John
Furnish
Been
Years
" Who really needs a new album from me? "
Elton John
Who
New
Really
" I've got to do something to make up for all those self-absorbed and selfish years when I just, you know, was taking drugs, sitting in my room, doing bad things, whatever. "
Elton John
Doing
You
Sitting
" 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! "
Elton John
Amazing
Son
Life
" 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. "
Elton John
Children
Small
School
" I've got that resilient thing inside me. But I wasn't a happy bunny. "
Elton John
Me
Bunny
Got
" I'm a very wealthy man. "
Elton John
Wealthy
Very
Man
" And I talked to my doctor, and I must admit, you know, I'm sometimes quite renowned for my outbursts and I was just very frustrated, maybe a little frightened. "
Elton John
You
Sometimes
Admit
" Fame attracts lunatics. "
Elton John
Lunatics
Fame
Attracts
" 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. "
Elton John
Mind
Parents
Copy