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.