Quotes from Elton John

It's getting late have you seen my mates, Ma tell me when the boys get here, It's seven o'clock and I want to rock, Want to get a belly full of beer...

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 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.

I am totally against the war but violence is part of mankind and it's going to happen, but as musicians I think we've got to step up and say 'come on'.

I don't want a Jennifer Lopez wedding or anything like that. A commitment ceremony would be a nice thing to do.

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

Don't judge the picture by the frame, every man is not the same

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

I loathe celebrity. I can't stand it.

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.

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

Some men kneel and pray, I like women and I like wine.

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.

Well, I'm a huge fan of Ryan Adams, who's from North Carolina. And he's beginning to break really quite big.

We were both very much the same. We were both very impulsive. We both loved life. We both loved shopping. We both had a love of clothes, obviously, because he was the designer that I kind of wore forever and ever.

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

I was more ashamed that I couldn't work the washing machine than the fact that I was taking drugs.

The less I say the more my work gets done.

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 have a much better relationship with the press than I did, I think because I stood my ground.

I could never go onstage in denims.

The whole point of being in this business and being blessed and being successful is that you're able to do things for your friends or your family, which means that they can have something special in their lives, too.

"How wonderful life is now you're in the world."