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Lincolnshire is the Idaho of England. You were either going to drive a tractor for the rest of your life or head for the city to work in a factory.

Elton John's home is laden with trinkets and books relating to Satanism and witchcraft.

One reason I quit doing interviews after years and years and years was because I was making things up.

My Mother set me on the right track, Marty Robbins made me want to write songs, and Jesus Christ did the rest.

My favorite thing is coming up with titles. The majority of the songs I've every written I've always thought of the title before I've written the song.

The worst thing about me is that I'll buy albums and put them away on the shelf and forget that I've got them.

'Captain Fantastic' was the first album in history to enter the (American) album chart at number one. We did it for a second time after that. Now that's not a boast, that's frightening.

Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.

Early risers catch the world waking and see its true colors.

If it was bliss to be alive, to hunt was rapture.

Anything is possible

Truth like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil however deeply sown will make its way to the light.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

Oh, both my shoes are shiny new, And pristine is my hat My dress is 1922… My life is all like that.

I really like the song "Only One" [ Kanye West with Paul McCartney].

My theory is this: Women falter when they're called on to be highly self-conscious about their talents. Not when they're called on to enact them.

I don't expect anything from anybody. When you grow old Your days are gone; it is part of life.

Sure, science involves trial and error. Scientists refine theories each day. But as they do, they help us grasp more clearly the wonders of the world and the universe.