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" 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. "

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" 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

" Who really needs a new album from me? "

" 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. "

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

" 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

Time

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

Elton John

Bunny

Got

" 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. "

" There is nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex. People should be very free with sex, they should draw the line at goats. "

" 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. "

Elton John

Unhappy

Days

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

" Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers. "

" I'd always lived with people - my family, or had people living with me, because I'd never liked being on my own. "

Elton John

Family

My Own

" I love every minute of fatherhood, staying up all night, changing nappies, kids crying, I find it really funny and inspiring. It connects you to the world in a new way. "

" I think performers are all show-offs anyway, especially musicians. Unless you show off, you're not going to get noticed. "

" I mean, Sting is one of my great buddies and I love him to death. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love. "

" I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The worst thing you can do to a child, and I've seen it happen so many times, is the silver spoon. "

" Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. "

Elton John

Jesus

Wanted

" I was more ashamed that I couldn't work the washing machine than the fact that I was taking drugs. "

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

" And there's no guarantee that if you get HIV and you take these triple therapies, or whatever comes along next, that they're going to be successful for you. "

" The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star. "

Elton John

Rock And Roll

Great

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

" And I trusted someone to look after me on the business side of life. "