Latest Elton John Quotes from Interviews

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• A great editor is the most valuable thing you can have as an artist because, as you said, sometimes you get too close to something. I think, apart from your talent, that's why you have the career you have - because you have great people behind you.

  Elton John

  Thinking, Artist, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I've been coming to America since 1970, and it's like my second home, but I've never felt such a divided country, ever. I didn't think it would get to this point, and it breaks my heart.

  Elton John

  Country, Heart, Home

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I get upset when people knock hip-hop, because I can absolutely see the musicality in it. These days, when I'm listening to records by hip-hop artists, I hear the production. It's just astounding how great the productions have become.

  Elton John

  Artist, People, Upset

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• If you don't understand hip-hop, you just have to see it being recorded.

  Elton John

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• That's just a part of being an artist: you can't write great stuff all the time, because if you did, then you'd be inhuman. The human side of people is that sometimes they fail.

  Elton John

  Writing, Artist, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm 27 years clean, and when you get clean, you see things in a different way. It makes your life so much more manageable.

  Elton John

  Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• People still think of AIDS as a shame-based disease, it's a sexually transmitted disease, and you're either gay or you're a prostitute or an intravenous drug user. And so a lot of people are still very bigoted about this disease. It's such a treatable disease. It's so - the end is in sight for this disease, medically.

  Elton John

  Gay, Thinking, People

  Source: www.wbur.org

• My mantra is if you raise money, don't waste it.

  Elton John

  Source: www.wbur.org

• I was incredibly confident on stage because that's where I loved to be. But offstage, there was no balance. I was a little shy kid that went onstage. And I always said, cocaine was the drug that made me open up. I could talk to people. But then it became the drug that closed me down. So it started out by making me talk to everyone, and then ended up by me isolating myself alone with it; which is the end of the world, really.

  Elton John

  Kids, People, Drug

  Source: www.wbur.org

• If people are encouraged to come out and say they're HIV-positive and they're given their treatments, then obviously, the people who are marginalized - like intravenous drug users, prisoners, people are made to feel less-than - if they're given the support of the government, and they're given the funding, then it's going to help solve the spread of AIDS and HIV in America.

  Elton John

  People, Support, Drug

  Source: www.wbur.org

• In my 20s I was so ignorant about drugs, and so naive. I mean, my band was smoking marijuana for years; I didn't even know what a joint was. And I'd never seen a line of cocaine in my life. And I don't know whether it was bravado or - OK, I'll join in. But my stupidity, I had a line of coke, and that started the whole process.

  Elton John

  Mean, Marijuana, Stupidity

  Source: www.wbur.org

• My sex drive has gone down so much since I've stopped doing coke. I was one of the few people that, when I did coke, I had an enormous sex drive. I still have a healthy sex life today, but it's not so important.

  Elton John

  People, Healthy, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I don't want to spend the rest of my life talking about when I used to drink or when I used to take drugs. I'm more interested in the future.

  Elton John

  Drug, Drink

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm still as fascinated with the music business as ever. I'd love to do an electronic album like Prodigy or Underworld. I really like that sort of music.

  Elton John

  Music Business

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I love to work. It fascinates me. And I love seeing who's coming up, who's got the charisma to last, who's got the intelligence to move on to other things. I'm so glad now that I'm stuck behind the piano, because when you're getting older it's very hard to waddle around the stage.

  Elton John

  Moving, Getting Older, Stuck

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I've reached the stage of my life where learning is so important to me. I go through the past enough when I play my old songs on stage. And I don't mind doing that. But I want to think about the future.

  Elton John

  Song, Past, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I really don't need the public's money. I'd like to have something on the internet with charitable donation optional, where anyone can download my music for free.

  Elton John

  Needs, Internet, Donation

• I am in deep shock. I have lost a beloved friend [George Michael] - the kindest, most generous soul and a brilliant artist. My heart goes out to his family and all of his fans.

  Elton John

  Heart, Artist, Soul

• I had to learn how to function as a human being. And I really enjoyed that process.

  Elton John

  Process, Function, Humans

  "A More Reflective Leap On Elton John's 'Diving Board'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 23, 2013.

• When people go to rehab and come out, they go through a difficult period, a lot of people. I never had that. I was so glad to be rid of all that crap that for me, to learn again and to function as a human being and learn how to participate in the human race again was just pure joy.

  Elton John

  Race, People, Joy

  "A More Reflective Leap On Elton John's 'Diving Board'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 23, 2013.

• I had no balance in my life. I was this one person onstage and this person offstage, who really didn't know much about living.

  Elton John

  Balance, Persons, Knows

  "A More Reflective Leap On Elton John's 'Diving Board'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 23, 2013.

• I had progressed on stage as a performer, but I hadn't progressed as a human being.

  Elton John

  Performers, Humans, Human Beings

  "A More Reflective Leap On Elton John's 'Diving Board'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 23, 2013.

• Onstage, it was always comfortable for me, because that's where I felt at home. Offstage, it was a different situation. I was still shy offstage.

  Elton John

  Home, Different, Shy

  "A More Reflective Leap On Elton John's 'Diving Board'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 23, 2013.

• Cocaine made me talk forever. The most nonsensical rubbish that you could ever think of.

  Elton John

  Thinking, Forever, Rubbish

  "A More Reflective Leap On Elton John's 'Diving Board'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 23, 2013.

• Unless you show off you're not going to get noticed.

  Elton John

  Shows, Showing Off

  "A More Reflective Leap On Elton John's 'Diving Board'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 23, 2013.