Elton John

I just sit there and make up songs and sing to [my son] in gibberish. I'm very good at gibberish now.

Live for each second without hesitation

I hope you don't mind,_x000D_ _x000D_ I hope you don't mind,_x000D_ _x000D_ that I put into words,_x000D_ _x000D_ how wonderful life is,_x000D_ _x000D_ now you're in the world.

The whole point of being in this business and being blessed and being successful is that you're able to do things for your friends or your family, which means that they can have something special in their lives, too.

I saw you dancing out the ocean_x000D_ _x000D_ Running fast along the sand_x000D_ _x000D_ A spirit born of earth and water_x000D_ _x000D_ Fire flying from your hands

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

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.

It's just so wonderful to have someone in the house like a child to turn your attention to. It's not about you anymore, it's about this lovely little human being.

I'm 57, I can't look like a 30-year-old. You try to hold age at bay, but there comes a point when you just have to give up gracefully.

It's the circle of life, and it moves us all, through despair and hope, through faith and love, 'till we find our place, on the path unwinding.

It turned out so well because it was the first album that I could identify with in terms of lyrics. ("Captain Fantastic") It was passionate...I could associate myself with every song...It's a unique album in our history. This was the story of us..."Curtains", the lyrics to that are so beautiful because it sums up our friendship so much, and our relationship.

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.

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.

How wonderful life is while you're in the world

Don't let the sun go down on me_x000D_ Although I search myself, it's always someone else I see_x000D_ I'd just allow a fragment of your life to wander free_x000D_ But losing everything is like the sun going down on me

So I am deeply saddened and shocked over the current legislation that is now in place against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community here in Russia. In my opinion, it is inhumane and it is isolating.

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 heard Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, and that was it. I didn't ever want to be anything else. I just started banging away and semi-studied classical music at the Royal Academy of Music but sort of half-heartedly.

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.

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

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.