Elton John’s new biopic Rocketman premiered at Cannes Film Festival this week and everyone seems to love it — especially the supposed graphic gay sex and drug scenes.

But if you ask Elton, he’d say they were all necessary! After all, he didn’t exactly “live a PG-13 life.”

“Some studios wanted to tone down the sex and drugs so the film would get a PG-13 rating. But I just haven’t led a PG-13 rated life,” he wrote in an essay for The Guardian. “I didn’t want a film packed with drugs and sex, but equally, everyone knows I had quite a lot of both during the ’70s and ’80s, so there didn’t seem to be much point in making a movie that implied that after every gig, I’d quietly gone back to my hotel room with only a glass of warm milk and the Gideon’s Bible for company.”

The film stars Taron Egerton in the lead role. While some had issues with Taron, a straight guy, playing Elton, a very open gay man, the singer says: “That’s all bulls—, I’m sorry.”

“If people don’t like it, review-wise, or it doesn’t make one dollar, it’s the movie I wanted to make and that’s all that counts,” he told The Sun. “I can look back and say, ‘You know what, I love it. I can live with it.'”

Rocketman opens in the U.S. on May 31!