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

~Bernie Taupin

Topics: After Because Doing Interviews Making Quit Reason Things Up Years Years And Years I Quit

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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

Topics: About Ancient Ancient Rome Bridge Could Eleven English English Literature Father Games Keeping Kids Lays Literature Mother Other Other Kids Pedestrian Playing Recite Rome Taught Ten War Were While

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

~Bernie Taupin

Topics: Back Bite Broadway May Occasionally Onto

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

~Bernie Taupin

Topics: Call Insult Lyrics Poetry Poets Real

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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

Topics: City Drive Either England Factory Going Head Idaho Life Rest Tractor Were Work You Your

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: May 22nd, 1950

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