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" Simon Cowell and I are great friends, and we wind each other up. Rod Stewart and I do the same thing. "

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" 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! "

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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. "

" 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. "

" If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything. Songs will outlast the artist and they will go on for ever if they are good. "

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

" I've got to do something to make up for all those self-absorbed and selfish years when I just, you know, was taking drugs, sitting in my room, doing bad things, whatever. "

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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. "

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

" I am the biggest technophobe of all 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. "

" 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. "

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

" If I was to say what I am, I'd be a Labour man. I like Tony Blair a lot, I think he's a good man. And in America I'd definitely be a Democrat; I'd never be a Republican. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Who really needs a new album from me? "

" 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. "

" An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make. "

" 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. "