Elton John Quotes

I think performers are all show-offs anyway, especially musicians. Unless you show off, you’re not going to get noticed.

At heart I’ve always been a music fan. That part of me has never changed since I was a little kid, sitting in a room watching a record go round, looking at the colour of the labels.

Don’t judge the picture by the frame, every man is not the same

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.

Unless you show off you’re not going to get noticed.

The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.

And I’m afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust.

I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later.

I’d always lived with people – my family, or had people living with me, because I’d never liked being on my own.

I grew up at my grandmother’s house and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you’re a kid.

I’ve only been interested in the artistic side of life.

As Elton John, my days on pop radio are over, and I know that and I accept it and I’m not unhappy about it.

I’m addicted to working. I mean, I have a list of 100 countries I want to play in. I’m basically killing myself by travelling so much, for no reason whatsoever.

Sometimes when I’m flying over the Alps I think, ‘that’s like all the cocaine I sniffed.’

When people go to rehab and come out, they go through a difficult period, but I never had that.

We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.

I never really made a full album in Los Angeles before.