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.”

“One reason I quit doing interviews after years and years and years was because I was making things up.”

“We may have limped onto Broadway as the underdogs, but underdogs bite back occasionally.”

“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.”

“Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.”