Quotes By Elton John
Artist
Elton John
Mar 25, 1947 - present
Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.
I'm going to fight for human rights, whether I do it silently behind the scenes or vocally so that I get locked up. I can't just sit back; it's not in my nature. I can't sit back and blindly ignore it, and I won't.
I love every minute of fatherhood, staying up all night, changing nappies, kids crying, I find it really funny and inspiring. It connects you to the world in a new way.
It's very important to have two tiaras when you're on the road. You never know when you'll be invited to something really formal.
I've always wanted to smash a guitar over someone's head. You just can't do that with a piano.
I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life, I love the food, I love the people, I love the attitudes of Italians.
I really appreciate my performing so much better, as I get older. I don't take it for granted anymore. I really relish it and love it.
I think people should be free to engage in any sexual practices they choose; they should draw the line at goats, though.
You and your oven are capable of great things, Remember, no two ovens are the same.
I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.
I was more ashamed that I couldn't work the washing machine than the fact that I was taking drugs.
I'm glad I've given up drugs and alcohol. It would be awful to be like Keith Richards. He's pathetic. It's like a monkey with arthritis, trying to go onstage and look young.
I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems.
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