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.
Interpretation
Having a child shifts your focus from yourself to nurturing and caring for a new life.
In this quote, Elton John expresses the profound joy and transformation that comes with parenting. The presence of a child in one's life brings a sense of purpose and selflessness, allowing parents to focus on the well-being and development of their child rather than their own desires and needs, ultimately leading to a deeper connection and fulfillment.
In practice
During a speech at a family gathering, to emphasize the joys of parenthood.
I don't want to be married. I'm very happy with a civil partnership. If gay people want to get married, or get together, they should have a civil partnership. The word 'marriage,' I think, puts a lot of people off. You get the same equal rights that we do when we have a civil partnership. Heterosexual people get married. We can have civil partnerships.
I just wish more of my fellow queers would come out sometimes. It's nice out here, you know?
At heart I've always been a music fan. That part of me has never changed since I was a little kid, sitting in a room watching a record go round, looking at the colour of the labels.
I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later.
So excuse me forgetting, but these things I do_x000D_ _x000D_ You see I've forgotten, if they're green or they're blue_x000D_ _x000D_ Anyway, the thing is, what I really mean_x000D_ _x000D_ Yours are the sweetest eyes, I've ever seen.
Don't be afraid to let her into your heart and when your down, don't try to carry the whole world on your shoulders.
Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.
I grew up without a father, who was kept a mystery to me. There was a sense of uprootedness, things being one day here and the next day not; a sense anything could happen. Then, all of a sudden, my mother met my stepfather, and her life became happier, and my life changed, my name changed.
Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.
Tell me, do you spend time with your family? Good. Because a man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.
I love my daddy. My daddy's everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.
I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically on the stereo, my German-American mother fingering 'The Lost Chord' on the piano as golden light sank through trees, my Palestinian father trilling in Arabic in the shower each dawn.
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