I'm very generous.

Fame attracts lunatics.

I'm a very wealthy man.

Don't let the sun go down on me.

I could never go onstage in denims.

I loathe celebrity. I can't stand it.

Who really needs a new album from me?

Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving.

My mum always used to buy a record every Friday.

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

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

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

I never really made a full album in Los Angeles before.

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

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

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

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

I mean, Sting is one of my great buddies and I love him to death.

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

And I trusted someone to look after me on the business side of life.

There is nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex.

All this science I don't understand, it's just my job five days a week.

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

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

An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.

I have an optimistic view of everything. You have to, otherwise you'd go nuts.

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

As a child, as a teenager, I was kind of not allowed to wear fashionable clothes.

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

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

I'm so proud to be on a Kate Bush record; she's always marched to the beat of her own drum.

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

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

When people go to rehab and come out, they go through a difficult period, but I never had that.

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

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

The worst thing you can do to a child, and I've seen it happen so many times, is the silver spoon.

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

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

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

You can call me a fat, balding, talentless old queen who can't sing, but you can't tell lies about me.

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

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.

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

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

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

I'm very relaxed. I have a family, I have a partner of 20 years, I have a wonderful life; nothing could be better.

There's no pressure for me to go out there and say, I've got to have a top 40 hit because it's not going to happen.

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

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