I've always been fascinated by everything with wings.

Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.

As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I'd written? Yes. There's many of them!

Actually, I hear a lot of rock music. My husband is a big rock fan.

I'm trying my best to keep up with all this new technology, and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.

'Jolene' has been very popular all of these years, even overseas.

When I'm home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we're not cooking, weselftravel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries in a hurry.

I'll bring my grits when I travel, because I get so hungry on the road.

I'm just a friendly person; that runs in my family.

There's a lot of rednecks in the country where I grew up.

Life is a song to me.

Everybody has a purpose.

Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.

People like bluegrass. It's had a following amongst a lot of hip and young people. A lot of college kids like bluegrass.

My biggest extravagances are also investments. I have several houses in California, a house in Nashville, an office complex, and I bought the old home place in Tennessee. They are different places for me to write, but I can turn right around and sell them.

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

The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.

I loathe celebrity. I can't stand it.

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

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.

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

I'm a very wealthy man.

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

I've got a great collection of photography.

I'm very generous.

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.

I've only been interested in the artistic side of life.

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

And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust.

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

I mean, Sting is one of my great buddies and I love him to death.

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.

Well, I was making a record, and I had to choose a name, because they said, you know, you can't make a record under the name of Reg Dwight, because it's never going to - you know, it's not attractive enough.

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.

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.

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

I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them.

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

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

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.

And there's no guarantee that if you get HIV and you take these triple therapies, or whatever comes along next, that they're going to be successful for you.

I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

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 you do when you're a kid.

I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens.

I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately.

I went to a mixed school and I can't remember being bullied at school, ever. I was quite large, in those days. Usually, if you're going to be a bully, you'll pick on someone who is small. I didn't bully anybody, and I don't remember being bullied.

I was just genuinely shy. I'd always been a shy kid.

I've always wanted to smash a guitar over someone's head. You just can't do that with a piano.

If I was to say what I am, I'd be a Labour man. I like Tony Blair a lot, I think he's a good man. And in America I'd definitely be a Democrat; I'd never be a Republican.