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.

- Elton John

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

- Elton John

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

- Elton John

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

- Elton John

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

- Elton John

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 gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens.

- Elton John

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

- Elton John

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

- Elton John

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

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.

- Elton John

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

- Elton John

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

- Elton John

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.

- Elton John

I think people should be free to engage in any sexual practices they choose; they should draw the line at goats though.

- Elton John

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.

- Elton John

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

- Elton John

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

- Elton John

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.

- Elton John

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

- Elton John

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.

- Elton John