Elton John Quotes - Page 9

Your eyes have died, but you see more than I.

And it's one more beer and I don't hear you any more.

They [sic] ain't gonna stop me from coming here, baby.

We have come so far. It's become a real bipartisan cause, which I'm very happy to see. And in the case of America, and it's - certainly, without America, we'd be facing catastrophe.

I've had my fills of cocaine and pills.

I've been following him since Space Oddity. And I've followed him from all those albums that didn't sell, like The Man Who Sold The World and things like that. Above all, apart from all the glamorous rubbish, the music's there. Ziggy Stardust is a classic album.

I love the way the American trade magazines never give anybody a bad review because they're afraid the advertising will be taken out. It's so hysterical.

Well, I'm a huge fan of Ryan Adams, who's from North Carolina. And he's beginning to break really quite big.

I used to get my money at the end of the week, buy my mum something, or buy a record, and that was it.

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

I didn't have sex until I was 23 and that was with a man. I made up for lost time after that in a hurry. I wish I could have had sex when I was, like, 14, 15 or 16 because that's such an exciting age to have sex.

I went to a mixed school and I can't remember being bullied at school, ever. I was quite large, in those days. Usually, if you're going to be a bully, you'll pick on someone who is small. I didn't bully anybody, and I don't remember being bullied.

And there are men behind bars who pray for the light and there are men in the suburbs who pray for the night.

On a street of right and wrong in every inch of sadness, rocks and tanks go hand in hand with madness.

No tears to damn you when jealousy burns.

We can't keep thinking of gay people as being ostracised; we can't keep thinking of Muslim people as being [ostracised] because of the fundamentalism that occurs in Islam. Muslim people have to do something about speaking up about it. We can't judge a book by its cover.

What we should be doing as musicians is trying to bring people together.

Don't let the sun go down on me.

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.

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 was ready to approach her with my English charm, when her brass knuckled boyfriend grabbed me by the arm.

The only thing the record companies put out now is 'Best of,'

Well, I quit those days and my redneck ways.

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.

And there's no guarantee that if you get HIV and you take these triple therapies, or whatever comes along next, that they're going to be successful for you.