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

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" Yeah. I have been with David Furnish for eight years, now. "

" Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours. "

" 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! "

" 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 have a much better relationship with the press than I did, I think because I stood my ground. "

" An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make. "

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

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

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

" I just go into the studio, look at the lyrics for the first time when I put them on the piano, and go. If I haven't got it within 40 minutes, I give up. It's never changed, the thrill has never gone, because I don't know what I'm going to get next. "

" 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. "

" I've got that resilient thing inside me. But I wasn't a happy bunny. "

" I rarely wear tennis shoes. I'm 5' 8', I hate being short. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've always wanted to smash a guitar over someone's head. You just can't do that with a piano. "