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 Read Quote
We may have limped onto Broadway as the underdogs, but underdogs bite back occasionally. Bernie Taupin Read Quote
One reason I quit doing interviews after years and years and years was because I was making things up. Bernie Taupin Read Quote
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 Read Quote
