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Elton John

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 25, 1947

Once I'd heard 'Modern Times' by Bob Dylan, it really changed the way I wanted to make records.

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

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I've never been jealous of anybody's success. I've been flummoxed by it because I don't understand it, but I'm not jealous of it.

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I'm a very wealthy man.

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I'm very generous.

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And I talked to my doctor, and I must admit, you know, I'm sometimes quite renowned for my outbursts and I was just very frustrated, maybe a little frightened.

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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.

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Well, as I was saying... everyone's so nice to me, usually.

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

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

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The whole point of being in this business and being blessed and being successful is that you're able to do things for your friends or your family, which means that they can have something special in their lives, too.

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And I trusted someone to look after me on the business side of life.

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Well, I'm a huge fan of Ryan Adams, who's from North Carolina. And he's beginning to break really quite big.

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I do like Britney Spears. I think she's cute. I think she's fun. And I like her records. You know, I'm not a pop snob whatsoever. I think she makes great pop records.

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And I agreed with that, and I couldn't wait to change my name anyway, because I'm not too fond of the name of Reginald. It's a very kind of '50s English name.

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We were both very much the same. We were both very impulsive. We both loved life. We both loved shopping. We both had a love of clothes, obviously, because he was the designer that I kind of wore forever and ever.

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Well, I've had my fair share in Britain of battling the tabloids.

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

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I never really made a full album in Los Angeles before.

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And the danger is - and it's happening - is we're seeing an incredibly big rise amongst young gay people, young heterosexual people as far as catching HIV, which is, you know, in an educated country like this or in Britain, it's frightening.

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