Elton John reflects on his own mortality in footage from a new documentary, saying: “I don’t know how much time I have left.”
The film, titled Elton John: Never Too Late, is directed by RJ Cutler and John’s husband, David Furnish, and looks back over his decades-long career.
Footage also captures him preparing for his final concert in North America at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, having performed two sold-out concerts at the venue back in 1975.
John says: “I wonder what is going to happen to all of this stuff when I finish? This is the latter time of my life. I don’t know how much time I have left.
“And you think about that more when you get to my age. You think about life and death. You think, ‘Well, I just want to be where I want to be now’.
“I don’t have to work after this tour. I will be working doing records and putting radio shows together and doing other things, but travelling takes so much out of you.
“It is very tiring. I am used to it and I am a veteran at it… but this is where you start to think about mortality.”
John says in the documentary that his children, sons Zachary and Elijah, “think about his mortality”.
He explains: “They worry about my mortality because they know how old I am.
“Not so much David, but me. They love their daddy so they want me to be around forever.
“I would love to be around forever. I want to see them have children and get married, but I don’t think I am going to be around for that, who knows? You never know.
“So that’s why I want to make the best of my time while I am around… time together is so wonderful and so precious.”
Elton John: Never Too Late, which streams on Disney+ from Friday 13 December, was screened earlier in the week during the BFI London Film Festival.
Source: Press Association