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

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" As a child, as a teenager, I was kind of not allowed to wear fashionable clothes. "

" 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. "

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

" I have no one to leave the money to. I'm a single man. I like spending my money. "

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

" I have a lot of money stashed away, but I do live my life from day to day. "

" 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. "

" 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! "

" Who really needs a new album from me? "

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

" Fame attracts lunatics. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. I don't know what makes people so cruel. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm a very wealthy man. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There's a lot of hate in the world. "

" I am the biggest technophobe of all time. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Well, I'm a huge fan of Ryan Adams, who's from North Carolina. And he's beginning to break really quite big. "

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

" Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. "

" Yeah. I have been with David Furnish for eight years, now. "