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I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens.

And it's one more beer and I don't hear you any more.

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

I'd walk a million miles to give her what she needs. But she would walk a million more to do what she believes.

If there's a God in heaven, what's he waiting for? If He can't hear the children, then he must see the war.

I think that's the graveyard of musicians, playing cabaret. I think I'd rather be dead than work in cabaret. It's just so depressing.

I have an optimistic view of everything. You have to, otherwise you'd go nuts.

Nothing should be an issue when it comes to sexuality in the first place. Music is the one artform where people feel comfortable coming out.

Welcome to the world of bullshit, my dear. You have arrived.

What a scandal, if I die. Yeah, I'm gonna kill myself, get a little headline news.

I could never go onstage in denims.

You get the same equal rights that we do when we have a civil partnership. Heterosexual people get married. We can have civil partnerships.

On a street of right and wrong in every inch of sadness, rocks and tanks go hand in hand with madness.

I can't think of anything until I've got printed words in front of me. I never wake up in the middle of the night with a song in my head.

I don't want a Jennifer Lopez wedding or anything like that. A commitment ceremony would be a nice thing to do.

Hold me closer tiny dancer, count the headlights on the highway. Lay me down in sheets of linen, you had a busy day today.

After claws and feathers, he took skin and bone, shaped it like an hour glass and made the angels moan.

I'll not complain about your boring life, if you just leave me to mine

I never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever.

I suspected my homosexuality, but I'd never acted out on it because I was afraid of sex. It's awful to be afraid of sex.

Lawdy Mama, those Friday nights when Suzy wore her dresses down tight.

I was just genuinely shy. I'd always been a shy kid.

It's very important to have two tiaras when you're on the road; you never know when you'll be invited to something really formal.

When stars collide, like you and I, no shadow blocks the sun - The One

Don't shoot me, I'm just the piano player!

I had a little Richard and that black piano, oh that sweet Georgia Peach, and the boy form Tupelo.

No tears to damn you when jealousy burns.

Cause what the hell is wrong with expressing yourself, trying to be me?

You should never take more than you give

Everything I thought I'd hate about having children - the crying, the screaming - nothing fazes me. I love it all, and it's relaxed me.

I want a love that don't mean a thing.

People in England are so bloody nosy.

Rocket Man, burning out his fuse up here alone.

He'd been drinking in a bar downtown, when he thought he heard a choir of angels singing in the Tiki Lounge. And that's when he got religion.

I just think you shouldn't expect people to pay money to see someone sing live and then lip-synch.

I've had an amazing professional life, personal life, but at 64 to have a son who gives us that much love and enjoyment is, wow!

I just wish more of my fellow queers would come out sometimes. It's nice out here, you know?

I have a lot of money stashed away, but I do live my life from day to day.

My mother encouraged me and was very great about me being gay, but she always encouraged me to follow my musical dreams, which I'm very grateful for.

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.

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

How wonderful life is while you're in the world

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

I used to get my money at the end of the week, buy my mum something, or buy a record, and that was it.

This is a tremendous assest for the club, a tremendous headache lifted from our shoulders, really.

Only take as much as you give, in the circle of life.

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.

There's a lot of hate in the world.

The French are useless. They can't organize a piss-up in a brewery.

Better to build a bridge than a wall.

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

Someone saved my life tonight, sugar bear, you almost had your hooks in me, didn't you dear?

I've always been dead set against festivals - really suspicious and wary.

An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.

It's like trying to drink whisky from a bottle of wine.

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

It was Elvis that got me interested in music. I've been an Elvis fan since I was a kid.

Once I'd heard 'Modern Times' by Bob Dylan, it really changed the way I wanted to make records.

I'm the Connie Francis of rock 'n' roll.

He [george W. Bush] lived up - well, he was someone that I wouldn't have voted for. His policies were not mine.

Some kneel and lie to God.

He's been dead for so many years, but I'm still trying to impress him. That's what gave me my drive. 'Look at me, Dad, I've succeeded.'

I rarely wear tennis shoes. I'm 5' 8', I hate being short.

It's so easy to write songs about misery and hard times and sadness. It's much more difficult to write songs about happy and chirpy stuff.

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

I'm so over the tattoos and the T-shirts and rings through the noses. It's not pretty, it's not pleasant, it's not exciting. Please stop it now.

You and your oven are capable of great things,Remember, no two ovens are the same.

I tried to commit suicide one day. It was a very Woody Allen-type suicide. I turned on the gas and left all the windows open.

The worst thing you can do to a child, and I've seen it happen so many times, is the silver spoon.

You can beat her, but don't mistreat her. Oh, don't believe that woman please.

It seems to me, sorry seems to be the hardest word.

Love is the key we must turn, truth is the flame we must burn.

And there are men behind bars who pray for the light and there are men in the suburbs who pray for the night.

Until I can visualise what the lyrics are about and see the story or whatever, I can't hear the melody.

The less I say the more my work gets done.

I've got that resilient thing inside me. But I wasn't a happy bunny.

As a child, as a teenager, I was kind of not allowed to wear fashionable clothes.

I was more ashamed that I couldn't work the washing machine than the fact that I was taking drugs.

Basically, I wanted redemption for the way I lived my life beforehand, and that was the drugs, the drink, the loose sex, whatever ...

I have a much better relationship with the press than I did, I think because I stood my ground.

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

Sometimes you can't see the wood for the trees as an artist.

I think people should be free to engage in any sexual practices they choose; they should draw the line at goats though.

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

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

I really appreciate my performing so much better, as I get older. I don't take it for granted anymore. I really relish it and love it.

They [sic] ain't gonna stop me from coming here, baby.

I cannot bear successful people who are miserable.

I hope you don't mind,
I hope you don't mind,
that I put into words,
how wonderful life is,
now you're in the world.

Don't show up around here until your social worker's helped.

Who really needs a new album from me?

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

I'm the ultimate record fan. I still go out and buy records.

I was ready to approach her with my English charm, when her brass knuckled boyfriend grabbed me by the arm.

My mum always used to buy a record every Friday.

I've got a great collection of photography.

Anyone who lip-synchs in public on stage when you pay 75 pounds to see them should be shot.

Poor cow, you'll get your dumb man. You'll see your whole life coming at you in the back of his hand.

Well, as I was saying ... everyone's so nice to me, usually.

I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love.