Elton John Quotes

I get high in the evening sniffing pots of glue.

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.

Because, I figured that, because I was a successful man, I was wealthy, I was, you know, seemingly intelligent - even that I am not intelligent enough to ask for help.

How wonderful life is while you're in the world

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.

The less I say the more my work gets done.

Love is the key we must turn, truth is the flame we must burn.

I just sit there and make up songs and sing to [my son] in gibberish. I'm very good at gibberish now.

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

I've been coming to America since 1970, and it's like my second home, but I've never felt such a divided country, ever. I didn't think it would get to this point, and it breaks my heart.

We have come so far. It's become a real bipartisan cause, which I'm very happy to see. And in the case of America, and it's - certainly, without America, we'd be facing catastrophe.

They [sic] ain't gonna stop me from coming here, baby.

I've got that resilient thing inside me. But I wasn't a happy bunny.

I was just genuinely shy. I'd always been a shy kid.

Johnny, can't you come out to play in your empty garden?

Your eyes have died, but you see more than I.

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

So excuse me forgetting, but these things I do You see I've forgotten, if they're green or they're blue Anyway, the thing is, what I really mean Yours are the sweetest eyes, I've ever seen.

I think that's the graveyard of musicians, playing cabaret. I think I'd rather be dead than work in cabaret. It's just so depressing.

I've got a great collection of photography.

My mum always used to buy a record every Friday.

I'd walk a million miles to give her what she needs. But she would walk a million more to do what she believes.

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

Sometimes you can't see the wood for the trees as an artist.

And it's one more beer and I don't hear you any more.

I've been going to Russia since 1979. I've been going quite frequently, and I've always had a wonderful rapport with the Russian audiences and with the Russian people.

I like Stevie Wonder. I usually wind up playing the same old tapes in the car.

I knew about AIDS. My friends were dying right, left, and center. I did a record with Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder, and Gladys Knight. I did a couple of benefits.

I love drag queens and I love going to see them perform because those people have got so much character and bravery. Such balls! I love people with balls.

...I'm so over the tattoos and the T-shirts and rings through the noses. It's not pretty, it's not pleasant, it's not exciting. Please stop it now.

I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.

I had no balance in my life. I was this one person onstage and this person offstage, who really didn't know much about living.

There's a lot of hate in the world.

I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind, that I put into words, how wonderful life is, now you're in the world.

She's got electric boots, a mohair suit, you know I read it in a magazine.

I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens.

He'd been drinking in a bar downtown, when he thought he heard a choir of angels singing in the Tiki Lounge. And that's when he got religion.

I loathe celebrity. I can't stand it.

You should never take more than you give

All this science I don't understand, it's just my job five days a week.

I love football, but I'm sick of the World Cup. I don't even care about England.

I am the most well-known homosexual in the world.

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.

I tried to commit suicide one day. It was a very Woody Allen-type suicide. I turned on the gas and left all the windows open.

The French are useless. They can't organize a piss-up in a brewery.

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.

I really don't need the public's money. I'd like to have something on the internet with charitable donation optional, where anyone can download my music for free.

If you don't understand hip-hop, you just have to see it being recorded.

I was ready to approach her with my English charm, when her brass knuckled boyfriend grabbed me by the arm.