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

Bernie Taupin

I am a simple vessel with complex overtones, opinionated on occasions but willing to listen.
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Ignorance Listening Patriotic Simple Vessel
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.
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Eleven Father Mother Pedestrian Recite War
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.
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Majority Song Titles Written
Comfortable with reclusiveness and devoted to privacy and family. Patriotic to a fault and allergic to cruelty, ignorance and bad music.
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Bad Ignorance Music Patriotic Privacy
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.
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Cities Factory Idaho Life Rest
Don’t call my lyrics poetry. It’s an insult to real poets.
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Insult Lyrics Poetry Real
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.
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History Numbers Second Song Unique
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.
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Albums Forget Shelves Things Worst
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.
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Basically Song Trying Writing
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.
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Half Interest Lose Song Waste Work Write
Read books, discover the blues and don’t Tweet.
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Blues Book Discover Tweet
Elton John’s home is laden with trinkets and books relating to Satanism and witchcraft.
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Book Home Laden Satanism
One reason I quit doing interviews after years and years and years was because I was making things up.
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Interviews Quitting Reason Years
My Mother set me on the right track, Marty Robbins made me want to write songs, and Jesus Christ did the rest.
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Jesus Made Mother Rest Right Song Track

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