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- I just sit there and make up songs and sing to [my son] in gibberish. I'm very good at gibberish now.
- It turned out so well because it was the first album that I could identify with in terms of lyrics. ("Captain Fantastic") It was passionate...I…
- I've got to do something to make up for all those self-absorbed and selfish years when I just, you know, was taking drugs, sitting in…
- 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…
- Don't show up around here until your social worker's helped.
- 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…
- I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately.
- Simon Cowell and I are great friends, and we wind each other up. Rod Stewart and I do the same thing.
- 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…
- I just go into the studio, look at the lyrics for the first time when I put them on the piano, and go. If I…
- I love every minute of fatherhood, staying up all night, changing nappies, kids crying, I find it really funny and inspiring. It connects you to…
- When Little Richard used to stand up and play it was just fabulous, and Liberace had the candlesticks and the rings and the gift of…
- Rocket Man, burning out his fuse up here alone.
- I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately. As children,…
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