John Quotes

What a scandal, if I die. Yeah, I'm gonna kill myself, get a little headline news.

I'm 57, I can't look like a 30-year-old. You try to hold age at bay, but there comes a point when you just have to give up gracefully.

Rocket Man, burning out his fuse up here alone.

You and your oven are capable of great things,Remember, no two ovens are the same.

I'm 27 years clean, and when you get clean, you see things in a different way. It makes your life so much more manageable.

I had to learn how to function as a human being. And I really enjoyed that process.

Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving.

To forgive and be forgiven, if it's the last thing I do, then in death's release I may find the peace that in life I never knew.

Shock waves to a tired brain, sends that hungry lady to my door again. She's my shelter from the storm when I feel the rain, entertaining white powder.

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

I guess that's why they call it the blues, time on my hands could be time spent with you.

Don't you know I”m still standing better than I ever did. Looking like a true survivor, feeling like a little kid. I'm still standing after all this time.

I didn't sleep with anyone till I was 23.

This is a tremendous assest for the club, a tremendous headache lifted from our shoulders, really.

Like a candle in the wind, never knowing who to cling to until the rain set it.

There ain't been no angels in heaven around since God invented girls.

I went up to Prince and said 'I'm a big fan of your stuff' and he looked at me and just walked off...left me standing there like a ****. He's a prat, but a clever prat.

You can beat her, but don't mistreat her. Oh, don't believe that woman please.

The ugliest woman you'll ever meet, but she's mine and she's ugly.

He [george W. Bush] lived up - well, he was someone that I wouldn't have voted for. His policies were not mine.

I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later.

My old man is drunker than a barrel full of monkeys, but my old lady she don't care.

When stars collide, like you and I, no shadow blocks the sun" - The One

Take me to the pilot of your soul.

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 don't want a Jennifer Lopez wedding or anything like that. A commitment ceremony would be a nice thing to do.

Blue jean baby, LA lady, seamstress for the band. Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you'll marry a music man. Ballerina, you must have seen her dancing in the sand.

Anyone who lip-synchs in public on stage when you pay 75 pounds to see them should be shot.

Laughing like children, living like lovers, rolling like thunder, under the covers, and I guess that's why they call it the blues.

It's like trying to drink whisky from a bottle of wine.

Don't shoot me, I'm just the piano player!

I don't want to spend the rest of my life talking about when I used to drink or when I used to take drugs. I'm more interested in the future.

I still want to play music but I don't want to look like Donald Duck while I'm doing it.

An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.

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.

I'm very relaxed. I'm very happy with my personal life.

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

I've had my fills of cocaine and pills.

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

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.

If I was to say what I am, I'd be a Labour man. I like Tony Blair a lot, I think he's a good man. And in America I'd definitely be a Democrat; I'd never be a Republican.

I'm the Connie Francis of rock 'n' roll.

Chefs aren't celebrities: they're chefs.

It's so easy to write songs about misery and hard times and sadness. It's much more difficult to write songs about happy and chirpy stuff.

The work became like the drug addiction, the clothes, anything in my life. It became - it's become an addiction. I'm addicted to working.

It was Scotty Moore's guitar riff [in "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You"] when he was doing The Steve Allen Show that got me into rock music.

I'm the ultimate record fan. I still go out and buy records.

Someone saved my life tonight, sugar bear, you almost had your hooks in me, didn't you dear?

I'm not bored with my life. I'm not just making the records and touring, I would find that boring.

I've watched other people singing, I've become a much better singer. I've become a singer that plays the piano instead of a piano player that sings.