Elton John has reason to celebrate on July 29, 2015 — he's been sober for a quarter-century.

He marked the milestone on Instagram, writing, "25 years of sobriety today. One day at a time," with hashtags including #gratitude, #happiness, and #blessed. The post was accompanied by a cake with the sparkly numbers on top.

David Furnish also posted a message praising his hitmaking husband's personal achievement. "Happy 25th Birthday Elton," he wrote along with a sobriety coin with 25 years imprinted on it. "You inspire me with your light and your love every day."

Elton has been candid about his drug and alcohol addictions, opening up on the topic in his 2012 memoir Love Is The Cure: On Life, Loss and the End of AIDS, saying he was "consumed by cocaine, booze, and who knows what else."

Elton, who has described himself as a "shy" kid, called himself "ignorant" and "naïve" about drugs during an interview to promote his book in 2012. He said he started using cocaine in the '70s with his manager, who brought it into the recording studio, and the drug gave him confidence when he was off stage.

"I always said cocaine was the drug that made me open up. I could talk to people," John told NPR that year. "But then it became the drug that closed me down, because the last two weeks of my use of cocaine I spent in a room in London, using it and not coming out for two weeks. And it completely shut me down. So, it started out by making me talk to everyone and then ended up by me isolating myself alone with it, which is the end of the world really."

Elton's turning point came when he met Ryan White, an Indiana teen who contracted AIDS through a blood transfusion and died in 1990. The performer said it forced him to take a hard look at his own life and stop using cocaine and abusing alcohol.

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