My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell and that whole generation.
“As Elton John, my days on pop radio are over, and I know that and I accept it and I'm not unhappy about it.”
“To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.”