Quotes from Elton John

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

I'm still as fascinated with the music business as ever. I'd love to do an electronic album like Prodigy or Underworld. I really like that sort of music.

To forgive and be forgiven, if it's the last thing I do, then in death's release I may find the peace that in life I never knew.

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

If there's a God in heaven, what's he waiting for? If He can't hear the children, then he must see the war.

There ain't been no angels in heaven around since God invented girls.

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.

I never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever.

Simon Cowell and I are great friends and we wind each other up. Rod Stewart and I do the same thing.

Onstage, it was always comfortable for me, because that's where I felt at home. Offstage, it was a different situation. I was still shy offstage.

Well, I quit those days and my redneck ways.

I'll even pay sometimes for a woman that's ugly.

The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.

People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The political response is appalling. The sadness of it, the waste.

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.

I'm a great lover of children. I never thought that one day I'd actually be a father, but I'm very pleased that I changed my mind. Children are extremely important. They are the future of the world.

No tears to damn you when jealousy burns.

I'm lucky enough and wealthy enough to be able to buy photographs and buy art that inspires me from day to day. I don't want a Picasso on my wall; it's great art, but it's dead art to me. I'd rather have a photograph by someone I've never heard of that really inspires me.

I rarely wear tennis shoes. I'm 5' 8', I hate being short.

I used to get my money at the end of the week, buy my mum something, or buy a record, and that was it.

Well, I've had my fair share in Britain of battling the tabloids.

And I talked to my doctor, and I must admit, you know, I'm sometimes quite renowned for my outbursts and I was just very frustrated, maybe a little frightened.

The world is near escalating to World War Three and where are the leaders of each religion? Why aren't they having a conclave; why aren't they coming together?

Some kneel and lie to God.