I was definitely teased and bullied in my junior school.

I like Madonna‘s music but not her movies. She should stick to what she is good at.

I think we all need to believe in hope: that if we have dreams and if we have ambitions and if we have skills and talents – that if you really put your heart into something and you work at it hard enough – that you can make your dreams come true.

If you look at ‘Gnomeo & Juliet,’ the movie‘s message essentially says it doesn’t matter if you’re a ‘red‘ or a ‘blue‘: at the end of the day, parents should love their children and want what’s best for them.

I studied really, really hard, rather boringly.

I gravitate toward contemporary art. I love great paintings, sculpture, photography, some video art.

We want to make sure that our boys realize that there are all different kinds of families, and all families are great.

It’s very important in any relationship that one partner doesn’t lose themselves in the other, and that’s very easy if you’re involved with a celebrity.

I think if you have an opportunity to live by example and make people aware of positive changes in our society, I think it’s a great thing.

Fear and ignorance fuel so much homophobia.

We all live by example.

I love diamond jewellery on men, and pocket scarves, cravats, cufflinks. The trick is to throw it together so it’s natural and not contrived. That’s real style.

Animation films are about entertainment and about fun for the whole family, and if you went too far down a dark path, it’s not what people, I think, expect from a great animated film.

I haven‘t done much art shopping in Vegas. It tends to be from galleries that are London– or L.A.- or New York-based. We’ve never had someone standing over our shoulder telling us something is a good investment.

I can’t say to Elton, ‘Hey, let’s walk around the corner and have a coffee.’ Someone as well-known as that can’t go anywhere in the world without being recognised. Elton has written the soundtrack to a lot of people’s lives, so they feel a kinship with him, so they come up, and that does colour things.

Everyone should be tested. Whenever they have a check-up, they should test for HIV, because if we can get to a point in our society where everyone is automatically tested, nobody will fall through the net.

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

If we can make HIV testing a normal part of looking after your health, we can truly envisage an AIDs-free future in the U.K.

I was neeeever a cool kid.

People go forward in life. Bitterness and grudges and resentments only poison it.

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 recognition of our relationship.

I ran away from small-town Canada to London; I ran away from my family because I didn’t think I could be the person I was.

When you get the high art of William Shakespeare and the greatest love story ever told, and you collision crash it with the low art of the tacky garden gnome, you’re going to have lots and lots of opportunity for fun and putting your tongue very firmly in your cheek.

You have to acknowledge that films that have a strong concept and are easily marketed to people are the ones that stand the biggest chance of success.

When Stephen Harper was elected as the new Conservative Prime Minister – and he talked about repealing gay marriage and putting it to a vote in the House of Commons – Elton and I talked about getting married in Canada to make a statement, for ideological and political reasons.