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I do work a lot. I mean, most of my income, I would say, comes from live performances. And then you've got publishing, you've got record royalties.
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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You should never take more than you give
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And the stigma hasn't really changed that much in 31 years. You are still getting people - it's a shame-based disease. It's based on sexual transmission. And it's still shame-based. And until people feel strong enough and feel loved enough to actually open up and say, listen, I'm HIV-positive, then we are facing an uphill battle.
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I used to take hostages in my relationships and not let people be independent. It always ended in disaster, because you take away people's identity and they end up full of resentment.
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And there's no guarantee that if you get HIV and you take these triple therapies, or whatever comes along next, that they're going to be successful for you.
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There is nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex. People should be very free with sex, they should draw the line at goats.
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I've dodged so many bullets. Not just because of unsafe sex, but because of the amount of drugs I did, the amount of alcohol, the amount of work I was doing. I started the Elton John AIDS Foundation because I got so lucky.
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I can't talk about - as eloquently as everyone else about a prevention or medicine or, you know, funding, but I can talk about the human element, which is the main part of AIDS, because it comes to the human being and how they are being treated, what medicines they are on and what medicines they are not on.
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I've got a great collection of photography.
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And there are men behind bars who pray for the light and there are men in the suburbs who pray for the night.
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Don't show up around here until your social worker's helped.
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I have an optimistic view of everything. You have to, otherwise you'd go nuts.
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I have no one to leave the money to. I'm a single man. I like spending my money.
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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.
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Ask anyone. If it hadn't been for Elvis, I don't know where popular music would be. He was the one that started it all off, and he was definitely the start of it for me.
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And we have come so far like that. I mean, the advances on the medication side have been enormous, and the advances on the human side have been enormous. But we still have this stigma to get rid of, and then we really will be able to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
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Instead of more violence why isn't there a [meeting of religious leaders]. It's all got to be dialogue - that's the only way. Get everybody from each religion together and say 'Listen, this can't go on. Why do we have all this hatred?'
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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.
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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.
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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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Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.
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