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" 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. "
Elton John
Much
Reason
Want
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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'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. "
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Day
Someone
Me
" As a child, as a teenager, I was kind of not allowed to wear fashionable clothes. "
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Kind
Wear
" And I trusted someone to look after me on the business side of life. "
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Someone
Life
Business
" I've never been jealous of anybody's success. I've been flummoxed by it because I don't understand it, but I'm not jealous of it. "
Elton John
Never
Understand
Jealous
" Well, as I was saying... everyone's so nice to me, usually. "
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Me
Saying
Well
" The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star. "
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Rock And Roll
Great
Me
" Well, I've had my fair share in Britain of battling the tabloids. "
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Fair
Had
Well
" 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. "
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Children
Small
School
" 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. "
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You
Artist
Good
" I am the most well-known homosexual in the world. "
Elton John
I Am
Most
Well-Known
" 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. "
Elton John
Help
Successful
You
" Fame attracts lunatics. "
Elton John
Lunatics
Fame
Attracts
" 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. "
Elton John
First Time
Look
Know
" 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. "
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House
Beautiful
She
" 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
" I think people should be free to engage in any sexual practices they choose; they should draw the line at goats though. "
Elton John
Think
Line
Choose
" I could never go onstage in denims. "
Elton John
Never
Go
Onstage
" There's a lot of hate in the world. "
Elton John
Hate
Lot
World
" I'm a very wealthy man. "
Elton John
Wealthy
Very
Man
" 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
" 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. "
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Dying
Sadness
Going
" 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. "
Elton John
Say
Go
Going
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Elton John
Loved
Life
Love
" The thing about Vegas is, I don't have to fly anywhere, and that really helps. It means I stay in one place for three weeks at a time instead of flying backwards and forwards. "
Elton John
Place
Vegas
Time
" I've got a great collection of photography. "
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Great
Photography
Collection
" I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life. I love the food. I love the people. I love the attitudes of Italians. "
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Life
History
Food
" I'm very relaxed. I have a family, I have a partner of 20 years, I have a wonderful life; nothing could be better. "
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Better
Family
Partner