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" Who really needs a new album from me? "
Elton John
Who
New
Really
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" I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate. "
Elton John
Work
Book
Beautiful
" Fame attracts lunatics. "
Elton John
Lunatics
Fame
Attracts
" I've always wanted to smash a guitar over someone's head. You just can't do that with a piano. "
Elton John
Head
You
Someone
" Yeah. I have been with David Furnish for eight years, now. "
Elton John
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Been
Years
" I think performers are all show-offs anyway, especially musicians. Unless you show off, you're not going to get noticed. "
Elton John
Musicians
You
Off
" 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. "
Elton John
Know
Legal
Action
" 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. "
Elton John
Gardening
Love
You
" Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers. "
Elton John
Hard Work
Young
Today
" 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. "
Elton John
Nothing
People
Sex
" I loathe celebrity. I can't stand it. "
Elton John
Celebrity
Stand
Loathe
" 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. "
Elton John
You
Artist
Good
" I have a much better relationship with the press than I did, I think because I stood my ground. "
Elton John
Relationship
Did
Ground
" 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. "
Elton John
Life
History
Food
" The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star. "
Elton John
Rock And Roll
Great
Me
" Simon Cowell and I are great friends, and we wind each other up. Rod Stewart and I do the same thing. "
Elton John
Up
Great
Other
" 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. "
Elton John
Want
Started
Royal
" It's just so wonderful to have someone in the house like a child to turn your attention to. It's not about you anymore, it's about this lovely little human being. "
Elton John
Attention
You
Someone
" I love every minute of fatherhood, staying up all night, changing nappies, kids crying, I find it really funny and inspiring. It connects you to the world in a new way. "
Elton John
You
Find
Funny
" There's a lot of hate in the world. "
Elton John
Hate
Lot
World
" 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. "
Elton John
Place
Vegas
Time
" 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. "
Elton John
Music
Looking
Sitting
" 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. "
Elton John
Relationship
Step
Good
" I was just genuinely shy. I'd always been a shy kid. "
Elton John
Just
Kid
Shy
" 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. "
Elton John
Kind
Because
Change
" Once I'd heard 'Modern Times' by Bob Dylan, it really changed the way I wanted to make records. "
Elton John
Changed
Modern
Records
" Well, as I was saying... everyone's so nice to me, usually. "
Elton John
Me
Saying
Well
" I am the most well-known homosexual in the world. "
Elton John
I Am
Most
Well-Known
" The worst thing you can do to a child, and I've seen it happen so many times, is the silver spoon. "
Elton John
Child
You
Worst
" I'm addicted to working. I mean, I have a list of 100 countries I want to play in. I'm basically killing myself by travelling so much, for no reason whatsoever. "
Elton John
Much
Reason
Want
" I could never go onstage in denims. "
Elton John
Never
Go
Onstage