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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.

We were both very much the same. We were both very impulsive. We both loved life. We both loved shopping. We both had a love of clothes, obviously, because he was the designer that I kind of wore forever and ever.

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I never really made a full album in Los Angeles before.

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I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately.

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I'm very generous.

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

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Well, I've had my fair share in Britain of battling the tabloids.

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Well, I was making a record, and I had to choose a name, because they said, you know, you can't make a record under the name of Reg Dwight, because it's never going to - you know, it's not attractive enough.

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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.

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And I agreed with that, and I couldn't wait to change my name anyway, because I'm not too fond of the name of Reginald. It's a very kind of '50s English name.

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But you know, I have a pretty good relationship with the press and the paparazzi. It's just when they step over the line that, you know, enough's enough.

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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.

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I mean, Sting is one of my great buddies and I love him to death.

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

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

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I'm a very wealthy man.

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

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And the danger is - and it's happening - is we're seeing an incredibly big rise amongst young gay people, young heterosexual people as far as catching HIV, which is, you know, in an educated country like this or in Britain, it's frightening.

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The thing about Vegas is, I don't have to fly anywhere, and that really helps. It means I stay in one place for three weeks at a time instead of flying backwards and forwards.

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

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I've only been interested in the artistic side of life.

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I do like Britney Spears. I think she's cute. I think she's fun. And I like her records. You know, I'm not a pop snob whatsoever. I think she makes great pop records.

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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.

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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.

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

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I rarely wear tennis shoes. I'm 5' 8', I hate being short.

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Who really needs a new album from me?

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Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving.

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I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them.

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

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I'd always lived with people - my family, or had people living with me, because I'd never liked being on my own.

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An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.

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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.

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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.

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I have a much better relationship with the press than I did, I think because I stood my ground.

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When Little Richard used to stand up and play it was just fabulous, and Liberace had the candlesticks and the rings and the gift of the gab. The piano's is the most ungainly rock' n' roll instrument of all time but those two people transcended it, as did Jerry Lee Lewis.

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Fame attracts lunatics.

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