Top 99 Quotes by Elton John

I do like my rock stars to be a little larger than life. I don't mind the earnest ones at all, but I do like a bit of individuality.

Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. I don't know what makes people so cruel.

If there is a better singer in England than Craig David, then I am Margaret Thatcher.

I am so in the past. I'm such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano.

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

And I agreed with that, and I couldn't wait to change my name anyway, because I'm not too fond of the name of Reginald. It's a very kind of '50s English name.

There's no pressure for me to go out there and say, I've got to have a top 40 hit because it's not going to happen.

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.

And I talked to my doctor, and I must admit, you know, I'm sometimes quite renowned for my outbursts and I was just very frustrated, maybe a little frightened.

Well, I'm a huge fan of Ryan Adams, who's from North Carolina. And he's beginning to break really quite big.