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" I've never had a writer's block, but still I think: 'Is it going to happen this time?' You never know what you're going to get; you just put your fingers on the keys and hope. "

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" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I could never go onstage in denims. "

Elton John

Never

Onstage

" 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

Going

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

" 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. "

" And the danger is - and it's happening - is we're seeing an incredibly big rise amongst young gay people, young heterosexual people as far as catching HIV, which is, you know, in an educated country like this or in Britain, it's frightening. "

" When people go to rehab and come out, they go through a difficult period, but I never had that. "

Elton John

Never

Difficult

" And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust. "

" 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. "

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

" 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

Tea

Good

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm so proud to be on a Kate Bush record; she's always marched to the beat of her own drum. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

Elton John

Rock And Roll

Great

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

" I've got a great collection of photography. "

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

" 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'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. "

Elton John

Day

Someone

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

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