I Hope You Don't Mind,

I Get High In The Evening Sniffing Pots Of Glue.

I Heard Little Richard And Jerry Lee Lewis, And That Was It. I Didn't Ever Want To Be Anything Else. I Just Started Banging Away And Semi-studied Classical Music At The Royal Academy Of Music But Sort Of Half-heartedly.

I Wasn't Involved In Anything. I Wasn't Out - You Know, I Know I Wasn't In Act Up. I Wasn't With Larry Kramer. I Wasn't By His Side. I Wasn't Saying What I Should Do, Because, By All Accounts, I Was A Drug Addict And An Alcoholic. And I Was Living In A Complete Bubble Of Self-absorption.

I Lived My Teenage Years In My 20s When I Sort Of Left Home And Became Elton John Success, Then It Became Elton John Excess... Everything I Couldn't Do When I Was Younger I Did 10 Times Over. I Was Having The Time Of My Life. I Was Becoming The Person That I Wanted To Be.

I Tried To Commit Suicide One Day. It Was A Very Woody Allen-type Suicide. I Turned On The Gas And Left All The Windows Open.