Elton John Quotes - Page 4

Everything I thought I'd hate about having children - the crying, the screaming - nothing fazes me. I love it all and it's relaxed me.

I'm enjoying everything in my life, but I think the element of surprise in show business is what makes us really love it, because one day you're sitting by the phone waiting to do something or not doing anything, and the next day you've got the chance of a lifetime. Those little phone calls don't come up so often, but when they come up, it's fantastic.

I'm not going to Russia and tell them to go to hell and think - that's not the way things are done. You chip away at something and you hope that there will be dialogue and that the situation can get better. You don't just go in there with guns blazing and say well, to hell with you because they're going to say to hell with you and get out of the country.

Love's like a junkie, addiction's a fact. Passion's a monkey, you can't keep off your back.

When a rumor doesn't go away it's not a rumor

Children are extremely important. They are the future of the world.

It's so easy to write songs about misery and hard times and sadness. It's much more difficult to write songs about happy and chirpy stuff.

Until I can visualise what the lyrics are about and see the story or whatever, I can't hear the melody.

For me music is so passionate. I have to give it my all every time I go onstage.

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

I have a lot of money stashed away, but I do live my life from day to day.

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

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

Johnny, can't you come out to play in your empty garden?

I'm still as fascinated with the music business as ever. I'd love to do an electronic album like Prodigy or Underworld. I really like that sort of music.

You can beat her, but don't mistreat her. Oh, don't believe that woman please.

I love people who expect me to wear great, feathery costumes- and I do it. It's like an actor getting into his costume for his part. I don't really feel that part until I'm into whatever I'm going to wear.

My mantra is if you raise money, don't waste it.

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 don't have a computer. I am the Luddite of rock'n'roll, I don't have a portable phone. I write things down.

Talk to each other. Never go to bed when you're angry with each other. Lady Antonia Frasier who was married to Harold Pinter said they never went to bed on an argument.

What a scandal, if I die. Yeah, I'm gonna kill myself, get a little headline news.

And I talked to my doctor, and I must admit, you know, I'm sometimes quite renowned for my outbursts and I was just very frustrated, maybe a little frightened.

I find that so many of my peers of my age don't listen to anything new. But I love the new. I love the energy of the new, the energy of the new act. The young are so important. The young give you the energy, and if you don't notice the young, and you don't give them credit and you don't listen to all sorts of music, then you're missing out on something.

I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later.