United Kingdom, March 31 -- Sir Elton John vowed to never let his children be scared of him after his own childhood filled with "fear".

The 78-year-old singer - who has sons Zachary, 14, and Elijah, 12, with husband David Furnish - vowed when he and his spouse became parents that their kids would have a different upbringing to his, as he was often "walking on egg shells" around his "strict" parents Sheila and Stanley Dwight.

Speaking to new dads Mark Wright and Ollie Murs on Heart FM, he said: "I was brought up in a very strict household in the '50s. I grew up in fear of my mum and my dad and I said to David when we were having Zachary, I said, 'I never want my kids to grow up in fear. I never want them to be afraid of us.'

"I was walk...