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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 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. I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life. I love the food. I love the people. I love the attitudes of Italians. "

" I rarely wear tennis shoes. I'm 5' 8', I hate being short. "

" I went to a mixed school and I can't remember being bullied at school, ever. I was quite large, in those days. Usually, if you're going to be a bully, you'll pick on someone who is small. I didn't bully anybody, and I don't remember being bullied. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" The worst thing you can do to a child, and I've seen it happen so many times, is the silver spoon. "

" For me, music is so passionate, I have to give it my all every time I go onstage. Onstage, it was always comfortable for me, because that's where I felt at home. "

" I never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever. "

" Fame attracts lunatics. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Everything I thought I'd hate about having children - the crying, the screaming - nothing fazes me. I love it all, and it's relaxed me. "

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

" When your persona begins to take over your music and becomes more important, you enter a dangerous place. Once you have people around you who don't question you, you're in a dangerous place. "

" 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. "

" I do work a lot. I mean, most of my income, I would say, comes from live performances. And then you've got publishing, you've got record royalties. "

" I am the biggest technophobe of all time. "

" But you know, I have a pretty good relationship with the press and the paparazzi. It's just when they step over the line that, you know, enough's enough. "

" 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. "