Elton John

I've had an amazing professional life, personal life, but at 64 to have a son who gives us that much love and enjoyment is, wow! ”

I am so in the past. I'm such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano. ”

When your persona begins to take over your music and becomes more important, you enter a dangerous place. Once you have people around you who don't question you, you're in a dangerous place. ”

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. ”

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. ”

I was just genuinely shy. I'd always been a shy kid. ”

I grew up at my grandmother's house and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you're a kid. ”

I've got that resilient thing inside me. But I wasn't a happy bunny. ”

I have no one to leave the money to. I'm a single man. I like spending my money. ”

I used to get my money at the end of the week, buy my mum something, or buy a record, and that was it. ”