Elton John breaks silence after being filmed smashing headphones during sweary studio tantrum

Elton John breaks silence after smashing headphones during studio tantrum Source: Magic Radio

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00:00All the problems I had with the album to start with were self-doubt. My self-doubt.

00:05And once I got over that, and Brownie was so helpful, I was not in a good space when I went in.

00:09I was tired, I was grumpy, and I was nervous. Nervous, yeah. Very nervous.

00:14Why were you nervous? Because that's so lovely to hear, this honesty coming through. Because

00:19a lot of people do stuff and they think, you know, you are such a superstar with such a reputation,

00:24decades of hits, decades of success. For you to say you're nervous, can you sum up why?

00:30All the problems I had with the album to start with were self-doubt. My self-doubt.

00:35And once I got over that, and Brownie was so helpful, she would come round to where we are

00:39now in the house. And one morning I was sitting here with the newspapers and I was saying,

00:44it's so awful. The world's in such a bad place. I was so miserable. And she took that and she

00:49wrote A Little Light. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. And so she took my, you know, my bad, grumpy,

00:55irritable feelings about what the world was like,

00:58and turned it into a really positive, wonderful song. We did it that day.