“We may have limped onto Broadway as the underdogs, but underdogs bite ...” — Bernie Taupin Quote

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

“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.”

“I joined the international stage quite late. I didn't do many of the youth age groups, so to come into the senior team and to be offered a Nike deal - a very, very low Nike deal to start with - but I was jumping up to bite the woman's hand off to sign the piece of paper.”

“I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.”

“I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do!”