Elton John

“I’m so thrilled with it because it’s given me another chance to make music.”

“It’s very frustrating when you’ve got the tools in your hand to end it, and then you find that countries won’t help”

“You know, there’s a big war that’s being settled, hopefully,”

“I was in pretty low spirits, kind of ornery for the first five or six days, to put it mildly. And a couple of times, I thought, 'I don't know whether we should continue with this.' But once it fell into place, it just went ahead like a rocket.”

“We had nothing. But that's what excited me. I didn't want to know what was going to happen. I was wanting to be unprepared and have a big adventure.”

“I thought, ‘No one’s really called Elton, so I’ll be Elton, and I’ll be the only Elton.’”

“I realized I put everything into my work, and my art, and my recording, and there was nothing underneath it,”

“You drove around in a convertible, and you listened to Joni Mitchell and you listened to Jackson Browne and James Taylor, and it was just a magical time.”

“I will never be in Australia again or all over Europe. I’ll be in England or America and that’s it but I don’t know where, I don’t know when and I don’t know if it will even happen… Life throws curveballs at you.”

“It’s not to say I’m going to stop doing things. I’m going to make records, I’m going to write musicals and I will do the odd show, here and there, maybe a residency, but it won’t be traveling,”

“John was such a fun person. He was one of the naughtiest people I ever met and we got on like a house on fire,”