Quote

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.

Elton John

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

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
People
Identity
Independent
Full
Hostages
Away
Hostage
Ends
Resentment
Used
Ended
Take
Disaster
Always
Relationships

More quotes by Elton John

Image
...I'm so over the tattoos and the T-shirts and rings through the noses. It's not pretty, it's not pleasant, it's not exciting. Please stop it now.
Elton John
Image
Hold me closer tiny dancer, count the headlights on the highway. Lay me down in sheets of linen, you had a busy day today.
Elton John
Image
I tour as many countries as possible, and I've toured every state in America, plus every province in Canada.
Elton John
Image
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.
Elton John
Image
I never really made a full album in Los Angeles before.
Elton John
Image
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.
Elton John
Image
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.
Elton John
Image
Sometimes you can't see the wood for the trees as an artist.
Elton John
Image
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.
Elton John
Image
A couple of sounds that I really like are the sounds of a switchblade and a motor bike.
Elton John
Image
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
Image
I am totally against the war but violence is part of mankind and it's going to happen, but as musicians I think we've got to step up and say 'come on'.
Elton John
Image
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.
Elton John
Image
It's like trying to drink whisky from a bottle of wine.
Elton John
Image
Simon Cowell and I are great friends and we wind each other up. Rod Stewart and I do the same thing.
Elton John
Image
I have an optimistic view of everything. You have to, otherwise you'd go nuts.
Elton John
Image
I've always been a fan, so my enthusiasm has always been great, but it's never going to be the same as it was from 1970 to 1975. You cannot repeat that, but you can get inspired by searching, by being mystified.
Elton John
Image
I rarely wear tennis shoes. I'm 5' 8', I hate being short.
Elton John
Image
To forgive and be forgiven, if it's the last thing I do, then in death's release I may find the peace that in life I never knew.
Elton John
Image
Holy Moses, let us live in peace. Let us strive to find a way to make all hatred cease. There's a man over there, what's his colour I don't care, he's my brother, let us live in peace.
Elton John