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I've only been interested in the artistic side of life.
Elton John
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Elton John
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: March 25
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Reg Dwight
Sir Elton Hercules John
Reginald Kenneth Dwight
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I don't want a Jennifer Lopez wedding or anything like that. A commitment ceremony would be a nice thing to do.
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I don't whistle at you down the street. I would if I could, but I can't whistle you see.
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Laughing like children, living like lovers, rolling like thunder, under the covers, and I guess that's why they call it the blues.
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I used to get my money at the end of the week, buy my mum something, or buy a record, and that was it.
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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.
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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.
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What record companies do these days is drain the blood dry of an album, take six singles off it, and harm the longevity of artists' careers by doing it.
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Basically, I wanted redemption for the way I lived my life beforehand, and that was the drugs, the drink, the loose sex, whatever.
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