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

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Elton John
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: March 25
Composer
Film Actor
Guitarist
Hiv Activist
Pianist
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Reg Dwight
Sir Elton Hercules John
Reginald Kenneth Dwight
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You get the same equal rights that we do when we have a civil partnership. Heterosexual people get married. We can have civil partnerships.
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I've been coming to America since 1970, and it's like my second home, but I've never felt such a divided country, ever. I didn't think it would get to this point, and it breaks my heart.
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And it's one more beer and I don't hear you any more.
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I'm glad I've given up drugs and alcohol. It would be awful to be like Keith Richards. He's pathetic. It's like a monkey with arthritis, trying to go onstage and look young.
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I have a much better relationship with the press than I did, I think because I stood my ground.
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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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Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.
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I've got that resilient thing inside me. But I wasn't a happy bunny.
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I've been following him since Space Oddity. And I've followed him from all those albums that didn't sell, like The Man Who Sold The World and things like that. Above all, apart from all the glamorous rubbish, the music's there. Ziggy Stardust is a classic album.
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Lawdy Mama, those Friday nights when Suzy wore her dresses down tight.
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I'm 57, I can't look like a 30-year-old. You try to hold age at bay, but there comes a point when you just have to give up gracefully.
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Don't judge the picture by the frame, every man is not the same
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I have an optimistic view of everything. You have to, otherwise you'd go nuts.
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But actually, my drug addiction thing, I was so stubborn.
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It's like trying to drink whisky from a bottle of wine.
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Better to build a bridge than a wall.
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I didn't really know what I was until I came to America and I had sex [for the first time] in San Francisco in 1970. It was with someone of my own sex.
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She's got electric boots, a mohair suit, you know I read it in a magazine.
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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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