I already had my own issues with mental health, or trauma as the buzzword is now, when the band started taking off. I think that just becoming known for who you are, and that's not someone you like much, was tough.

If it's bitter at the start, then it's sweeter in the end.

Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application.

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.

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

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