530 Quotes by Elton John

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.

The thought behind it was fantastic but Hyde Park is a charisma-free zone.

I used to take hostages in my relationships and not let people be independent. It always ended in disaster, because you take away people's identity and they end up full of resentment.

I went up to Prince and said 'I'm a big fan of your stuff' and he looked at me and just walked off...left me standing there like a ****. He's a prat, but a clever prat.

This is our tribute to those people. We're very proud to be here and we hope we can do justice by playing our very best.

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.

I'm glad I've given up drugs and alcohol. It would be awful to be like Keith Richards. He's pathetic. It's like a monkey with arthritis, trying to go onstage and look young.

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.

Although it hasn't been a commercial success, it has been a critical one. We love playing it.