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The great thing about small children is they're portable, so we take them everywhere, but when it comes to 2015, Zachary's going to school, and I want to be there to drop him off and pick him up. I don't want to just be the father who reads them a bedtime story.

Elton John

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

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I never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever. I always felt like an outsider.

Good Whatever Ways

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We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.

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

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

Great Thing Thin

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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.

Love Life Design

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I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'm a good piano player, I can sing well, I write good songs. If you don't like it, fair enough. But give me a break.

Time Respect Good

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And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust.

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I do like Britney Spears. I think she's cute. I think she's fun. And I like her records. You know, I'm not a pop snob whatsoever. I think she makes great pop records.

Great You Whatsoever

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

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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.

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If there is a better singer in England than Craig David, then I am Margaret Thatcher.

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I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life. I love the food. I love the people. I love the attitudes of Italians.

Love Life History

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

Money T Spending

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

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I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love.

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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.

Work Religion Love

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I've only been interested in the artistic side of life.

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

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

When your persona begins to take over your music and becomes more important, you enter a dangerous place. Once you have people around you who don't question you, you're in a dangerous place.

Once I'd heard 'Modern Times' by Bob Dylan, it really changed the way I wanted to make records.

Fame attracts lunatics.

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.

I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately. As children, we tend to copy our parents.

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

I tour as many countries as possible, and I've toured every state in America, plus every province in Canada.

I grew up at my grandmother's house and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you're a kid.

I loathe celebrity. I can't stand it.

The thing about Vegas is, I don't have to fly anywhere, and that really helps. It means I stay in one place for three weeks at a time instead of flying backwards and forwards.

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

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.

I do like my rock stars to be a little larger than life. I don't mind the earnest ones at all, but I do like a bit of individuality.

Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving.

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.

When Little Richard used to stand up and play it was just fabulous, and Liberace had the candlesticks and the rings and the gift of the gab. The piano's is the most ungainly rock' n' roll instrument of all time but those two people transcended it, as did Jerry Lee Lewis.

I am the biggest technophobe of all time.

If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything. Songs will outlast the artist and they will go on for ever if they are good.

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.

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.

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

The great thing about small children is they're portable, so we take them everywhere, but when it comes to 2015, Zachary's going to school, and I want to be there to drop him off and pick him up. I don't want to just be the father who reads them a bedtime story.

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

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

I love every minute of fatherhood, staying up all night, changing nappies, kids crying, I find it really funny and inspiring. It connects you to the world in a new way.

I could never go onstage in denims.

Well, I was making a record, and I had to choose a name, because they said, you know, you can't make a record under the name of Reg Dwight, because it's never going to - you know, it's not attractive enough.

I have a lot of money stashed away, but I do live my life from day to day.

Who really needs a new album from me?