The worst thing about me is that I'll buy albums and put them away on the shelf and forget that I've got them.
Bernie TaupinMy 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 TaupinMy Mother set me on the right track, Marty Robbins made me want to write songs, and Jesus Christ did the rest.
Bernie Taupin