One reason I quit doing interviews after years and years and years was because I was making things up. – Bernie Taupin
Lincolnshire is the Idaho of England. You were either going to drive a tractor for the rest of your life or head for the city to work in a factory. – Bernie Taupin
We may have limped onto Broadway as the underdogs, but underdogs bite back occasionally. – Bernie Taupin
My mother’s father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay’s ‘Lays of Ancient Rome.’ While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I’d be Horatius keeping the bridge. – Bernie Taupin