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" Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. "
Elton John
Jesus
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Wanted
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" When Little Richard used to stand up and play it was just fabulous, and Liberace had the candlesticks and the rings and the gift of the gab. The piano's is the most ungainly rock' n' roll instrument of all time but those two people transcended it, as did Jerry Lee Lewis. "
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" I think performers are all show-offs anyway, especially musicians. Unless you show off, you're not going to get noticed. "
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" I am the biggest technophobe of all time. "
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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. "
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" I used to get my money at the end of the week, buy my mum something, or buy a record, and that was it. "
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" The worst thing you can do to a child, and I've seen it happen so many times, is the silver spoon. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm very generous. "
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" I was just genuinely shy. I'd always been a shy kid. "
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Kid
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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. "
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Know
Enough
" 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. "
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Successful
You
" I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later. "
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Always
First
" I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano. "
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I Am
I Can
" I could never go onstage in denims. "
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Never
Go
Onstage
" 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. "
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Looking
Sitting
" When I say I don't have to write pop songs anymore, there's no way I'm going to get on the radio at 60 years of age unless I'm doing a duet with Gaga or I was on 'All of the Lights,' which was a Kanye West record that managed to get on the radio. "
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Say
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Way
" 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. "
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Change
" As a child, as a teenager, I was kind of not allowed to wear fashionable clothes. "
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Kind
Wear
" Once I'd heard 'Modern Times' by Bob Dylan, it really changed the way I wanted to make records. "
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" If there is a better singer in England than Craig David, then I am Margaret Thatcher. "
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" I'm a very wealthy man. "
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Very
Man
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" I have a lot of money stashed away, but I do live my life from day to day. "
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Live
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