Quotes by Elton John

We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.

And I’m afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust.

I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn’t seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it’s not really compassionate.

I have a much better relationship with the press than I did, I think because I stood my ground.

But you know, I have a pretty good relationship with the press and the paparazzi. It’s just when they step over the line that, you know, enough’s enough.

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

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

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

I have a lot of money stashed away, but I do live my life from day to day.

I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can’t afford to take legal action against them.