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I'm lucky enough and wealthy enough to be able to buy photographs and buy art that inspires me from day to day. I don't want a Picasso on my wall it's great art, but it's dead art to me. I'd rather have a photograph by someone I've never heard of that really inspires me.

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Elton John
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: March 25
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There ain't been no angels in heaven around since God invented girls.
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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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The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.
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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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I had progressed on stage as a performer, but I hadn't progressed as a human being.
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Johnny, can't you come out to play in your empty garden?
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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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I think people should be free to engage in any sexual practices they choose they should draw the line at goats, though.
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Sweet freedom whispered in my ear, you're a butterfly, and butterflies are free to fly, fly away, high-away, bye-bye.
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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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The less I say the more my work gets done.
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And the danger is - and it's happening - is we're seeing an incredibly big rise amongst young gay people, young heterosexual people as far as catching HIV, which is, you know, in an educated country like this or in Britain, it's frightening.
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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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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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We have come so far. It's become a real bipartisan cause, which I'm very happy to see. And in the case of America, and it's - certainly, without America, we'd be facing catastrophe.
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There is such a thing as good interference from your record label. I don't think I get enough interference from my record label.
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I think performers are all show-offs anyway, especially musicians. Unless you show off, you're not going to get noticed.
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Getting paid for being laid, guess that's the name of the game.
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People say, You should write lyrics and I say I'm quite happy not to, because I like being part of that process where you write your version of what someone else's lyrics are saying to you, and that enjoyment has never changed.
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Well, I've had my fair share in Britain of battling the tabloids.
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