Quotes from Elton John

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.

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.

I am the biggest technophobe of all time.

I've got a great collection of photography.

I am so in the past. I'm such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano.

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

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

Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. I don't know what makes people so cruel.

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

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.

Goodbye Norma Jean From the young man in the 22nd row Who sees you as something more than sexual More than just our Marilyn Monroe

I'm a very wealthy man.

Rocket Man, burning out his fuse up here alone.

My old man is drunker than a barrel full of monkeys, but my old lady she don't care.

Blue jean baby, LA lady, seamstress for the band. Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you'll marry a music man. Ballerina, you must have seen her dancing in the sand.

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.

Poor cow, you'll get your dumb man. You'll see your whole life coming at you in the back of his hand.

Holy Moses, let us live in peace. Let us strive to find a way to make all hatred cease. There's a man over there, what's his colour I don't care, he's my brother, let us live in peace.

And there are men behind bars who pray for the light and there are men in the suburbs who pray for the night.

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.

I just think you shouldn't expect people to pay money to see someone sing live and then lip-synch.

I get bombed for breakfast in the morning, I get bombed for dinner.

Ask anyone. If it hadn't been for Elvis, I don't know where popular music would be. He was the one that started it all off, and he was definitely the start of it for me.

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.