Bernie Taupin
Bernie Taupin
Bernard John "Bernie" Taupinis an English lyricist, poet, and singer, best known for his long-term collaboration with Elton John, writing the lyrics for the majority of the star's songs, and making his lyrics some of the best known in music history...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth22 May 1950
albums forget shelves
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.
song writing trying
Basically it takes me very little time to write a song. If I find myself taking more than an hour to do it I usually forget it, and try something else. I like to work quickly; I never like to waste any time. I never write half a song and come back to it later at all. It all has to be done at once. I lose interest if it doesn't.
ignorance patriotic simple
I am a simple vessel with complex overtones, opinionated on occasions but willing to listen. Comfortable with reclusiveness and devoted to privacy and family. Patriotic to a fault and allergic to cruelty, ignorance and bad music.
mother song jesus
My Mother set me on the right track, Marty Robbins made me want to write songs, and Jesus Christ did the rest.
world
Early risers catch the world waking and see its true colors.
song favorites-things majority
My favorite thing is coming up with titles. The majority of the songs I've every written I've always thought of the title before I've written the song.
mother father war
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.
underdogs
We may have limped onto Broadway as the underdogs, but underdogs bite back occasionally.
cities idaho rest-of-your-life
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.
real lyric-poetry insult
Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.
book tweet
Read books, discover the blues and don't Tweet.
song unique order
'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.
book home satanism
Elton John's home is laden with trinkets and books relating to Satanism and witchcraft.
years interviews quitting
One reason I quit doing interviews after years and years and years was because I was making things up.