My Mother set me on the right ...

My Mother set me on the right track, Marty Robbins made me want to write songs, and Jesus Christ did the rest.
 Bernie Taupin

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'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.
 Bernie Taupin
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
Elton John's home is laden with trinkets and books relating to Satanism and witchcraft.
 Bernie Taupin