One reason I quit doing interviews after years and years and years was because I was making things up.

Lincolnshire is the Idaho of England. You were either going to drive a tractor for the rest of your life or head for the city to work in a factory.

Read books, discover the blues and don't Tweet.

Elton John's home is laden with trinkets and books relating to Satanism and witchcraft.

My Mother set me on the right track, Marty Robbins made me want to write songs, and Jesus Christ did the rest.

My favorite thing is coming up with titles. The majority of the songs I've every written I've always thought of the title before I've written the song.

The worst thing about me is that I'll buy albums and put them away on the shelf and forget that I've got them.

'Captain Fantastic' was the first album in history to enter the (American) album chart at number one. We did it for a second time after that. Now that's not a boast, that's frightening.

Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.

Early risers catch the world waking and see its true colors.

Sometimes you have to go a little crazy before you can find sanity. I think I'm close.

How easy is it for one benevolent being to diffuse pleasure around him, and how truly is a kind heart a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity to freshen into smiles.

CONFLICT is the unhealthy fruit from the tree of MISUNDERSTANDINGwhich was once a seed of INSECURITIES thatsprout from the isolation of MIND, sipping slowly the liquid of PRIDE...

I know it's going to be just magical, and almost certainly going to be over quickly - on playing Sharapova.

We have something special...a culture which we do not think of as something for the elite, but as something which is accessible to practically everybody.

Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.

I have sort of the career where, if you are a fan, you've been following me for a while, and you really like something that I've done, so meeting those people is always a really gracious experience.

When you're younger, you think of your age in fractions. 4 1/2, 5 1/2. You don't hear 36 1/2. You become 2, you turn 40, you reach 50, you make it to 60. By now you're going so fast you hit 70!

The evolution of the New Era rests on the cornerstone of Knowledge and Beauty.

As a people we do not need anyone else's stamp of approval.