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That's just a part of being an artist: you can't write great stuff all the time, because if you did, then you'd be inhuman. The human side of people is that sometimes they fail.

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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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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I don't think you can recreate anything from the past. You can not do it. If you're going to go out and imitate a Motown sound, you can't do it, it's impossible because of the studios and players involved and the atmosphere.
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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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We have a society where every hit maker and TV presenter is gay.
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People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The political response is appalling. The sadness of it, the waste.
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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 I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust.
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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 had my fills of cocaine and pills.
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Anyone who lip-synchs in public on stage when you pay 75 pounds to see them should be shot.
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And it's one more beer and I don't hear you any more.
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Nothing should be an issue when it comes to sexuality in the first place. Music is the one artform where people feel comfortable coming out.
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The less I say the more my work gets done.
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I get upset when people knock hip-hop, because I can absolutely see the musicality in it. These days, when I'm listening to records by hip-hop artists, I hear the production. It's just astounding how great the productions have become.
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My old man is drunker than a barrel full of monkeys, but my old lady she don't care.
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