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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.

Elton John

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Elton John
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: March 25
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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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Johnny, can't you come out to play in your empty garden?
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Well, I'm a huge fan of Ryan Adams, who's from North Carolina. And he's beginning to break really quite big.
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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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Sometimes you can't see the wood for the trees as an artist.
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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've got a great collection of photography.
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It's like trying to drink whisky from a bottle of wine.
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Well, I've had my fair share in Britain of battling the tabloids.
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I tour as many countries as possible, and I've toured every state in America, plus every province in Canada.
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At heart I've always been a music fan. That part of me has never changed since I was a little kid, sitting in a room watching a record go round, looking at the colour of the labels.
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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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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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In the '50s you weren't taught about sex whatsoever. It was never just talked about. People used to snoop behind their curtains and look at the neighbors. And if a girl became pregnant in your part of the world, she was shipped off to the countryside.
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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.
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Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids, in fact it's cold as hell.
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I heard Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, and that was it. I didn't ever want to be anything else. I just started banging away and semi-studied classical music at the Royal Academy of Music but sort of half-heartedly.
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I really don't need the public's money. I'd like to have something on the internet with charitable donation optional, where anyone can download my music for free.
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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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I'm going to fight for human rights, whether I do it silently behind the scenes or vocally so that I get locked up. I can't just sit back it's not in my nature. I can't sit back and blindly ignore it, and I won't.
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