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" 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. "
Elton John
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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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" Well, I'm a huge fan of Ryan Adams, who's from North Carolina. And he's beginning to break really quite big. "
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" 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. "
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" When people go to rehab and come out, they go through a difficult period, but I never had that. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" Fame attracts lunatics. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" I'm so proud to be on a Kate Bush record; she's always marched to the beat of her own drum. "
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" I do like my rock stars to be a little larger than life. I don't mind the earnest ones at all, but I do like a bit of individuality. "
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" 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. "
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" I think people should be free to engage in any sexual practices they choose; they should draw the line at goats though. "
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" I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens. "
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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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" 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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" I loathe celebrity. I can't stand it. "
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" 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. "
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" Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers. "
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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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" And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust. "
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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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" 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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" And I trusted someone to look after me on the business side of life. "
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