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" 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. "

Elton John

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

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

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Bunny

Got

" 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. "

" And I agreed with that, and I couldn't wait to change my name anyway, because I'm not too fond of the name of Reginald. It's a very kind of '50s English name. "

" 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. "

" Well, I've had my fair share in Britain of battling the tabloids. "

" 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've got a great collection of photography. "

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

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

" I think people should be free to engage in any sexual practices they choose; they should draw the line at goats though. "

" 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. "

" I'm very generous. "

Elton John

Generous

Very

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

Elton John

Saying

Well

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

" 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. "

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

" Who really needs a new album from me? "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" Once I'd heard 'Modern Times' by Bob Dylan, it really changed the way I wanted to make records. "

" Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. "

Elton John

Jesus

Wanted

" I used to get my money at the end of the week, buy my mum something, or buy a record, and that was it. "