“When you're in a relationship with a very famous person, you have to make compromises.”

“In strictly medical terms, there's no difference between HIV and diabetes; they're not curable, but they're very, very highly treatable, and early information is power. The only thing - literally t...”

“Out of ignorance and fear comes judgment and division.”

“Knowing your HIV status is so important for your future health and that of your loved ones.”

“I came from a happy family with loving parents, so my associations with marriage and children were all happy, positive things that brought me comfort as a child, which I wanted in my life.”

“One of the reasons Elton and I entered into our partnership - the first day it became legal in Britain to do so - is that we felt it was an opportunity to protect ourselves with official recognitio...”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“If I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and t...”

“I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and ...”

“I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast the first stone.”

“Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.”

“Pride is ugly. It says, 'If you succeed, I am a failure.'”

“Trying to please everybody is what you'll soon get tired of, because as time goes on, those you're pleasing will get tired of you.”

“Nobody does nothing. Everybody does something, sometimes nothing is something in the idle man's world.”

“Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most? When hes done good and made things easy for everybody? That aint the time at all. Its when hes at his lowestand he cant believe in hi...”