We Were Both Very Much The Same.

The Worst Thing You Can Do To A Child, And I've Seen It Happen So Many Times, Is The Silver Spoon.

I Think Performers Are All Show-offs Anyway, Especially Musicians. Unless You Show Off, You're Not Going To Get Noticed.

I've Got To Think About What I'm Going To Say Very Carefully. There's Two Avenues Of Thought: Do You Stop Everyone Going, Ban All The Artists Coming In From Russia? But Then You're Really Leaving The Men And Women Who Are Gay And Suffering Under The Antigay Laws In An Isolated Situation. As A Gay Man, I Can't Leave Those People On Their Own Without Going Over There And Supporting Them. I Don't Know What's Going To Happen, But I've Got To Go.

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've Dodged So Many Bullets. Not Just Because Of Unsafe Sex, But Because Of The Amount Of Drugs I Did, The Amount Of Alcohol, The Amount Of Work I Was Doing. I Started The Elton John Aids Foundation Because I Got So Lucky.