It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn't much. But the things that I'm really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I'm not successful, what do I have?

I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.

I'm either going to go completely mental, completely bankrupt, or have the best success of my life.

I lived my teenage years in my 20s when I sort of left home and became Elton John success, then it became Elton John excess... Everything I couldn't do when I was younger I did 10 times over. I was having the time of my life. I was becoming the person that I wanted to be.