"Onstage it was always comfortable for me because that's where I felt at home. Offstage it was a different situation. I was still shy offstage and unfortunately, my shyness and my inability to communicate and really have great conversations or be part of the gang - in inverted commas - led me to the drug addiction, which, you know, blighted my life for 16 years because I thought by doing that it would make me join in."

-- Elton John

#Home Quotes #Years Quotes #Addiction Quotes

“I gazed upon the earth and saw that a body, in its tender faithlessness, had located it in the sky. A splendid scarf of blood, looming above the abyss.”
“The key issue is the shift of the centre of gravity from the West to the East, the rise of China and India.”
“The love and attention you always thought you wanted from someone else is the love and attention you first need to give to yourself.”
“I write all the time because I'm lonely. When you're acting, you're working every day all day. But then you have long amounts of time off.”
“A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization.”

Source : Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 7, 2003.
“I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it'd be a scribble with fangs.”
“Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime?”
“The important aspect shouldn't be whose administration it is, the important aspect should be how does the state of Wisconsin work, what can we do to move Wisconsin forward.”

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