What we've had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we're doing - the music.

I could sing you a thousand and one doo-wop songs. I love the simplicity in that music. It's not super-poetic, it's just from the heart.

I've accomplished enough with the music that I haven't had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

The loss of these tastes [for poetry and music] is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.

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.

My goal in life is to give to the world what I was lucky to receive: the ecstasy of divine union through my music and my dance.