16 Quotes by Bernie Taupin

If you ask how I am then I’ll just say inspired

Until you've seen this trash can dream come true.You stand at the edge while people run you through.And I thank the Lord there's people out there like you.I thank the Lord there's people out there like you.

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

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.

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.

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

Read books, discover the blues and don't Tweet.

'Captain Fantastic' was the first album in history to enter the (American) album chart at number one. We did it for a second time after that. Now that's not a boast, that's frightening...The process of doing it was unique because I wrote the songs in the order they were recorded, so it was written like a story.