Teresa Mitchell

“In a restaurant, I can’t sit with my back to the door. Not sure if I’m OCD, but I excel at organizational skills. Slightly claustrophobic, not crazy about heights. Love martinis but one is enough. Tend to be opinionated at times but good at reigning it in. Love long-legged women, clueless about cars, love trucks. I read several dozen books a year, cook every night, and am uncomfortable if music isn’t playing. Don’t like scat singing or modulation, jazz is my preferred music, and my favorite colors are black and dark blue. Have no problem eating on my own in a restaurant, have to have a dog, and hate clowns and circuses. I’d never heard a Pink Floyd album until 2015, Penderecki’s “Polish Requiem” can make me cry, love trains, and am a confirmed sushi snob. I’ve never wanted to be anyone else, but if I had to choose I’d be Michael Caine.”
― Bernie Taupin, Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton, and Me

“There is a faction of individuals inhabiting Australia’s remotest outposts, places like the Kiwirrkurra Community in the Gibson Desert west of Alice Springs, that make the redneck element in Deliverance look like Amish doily embroiders.”
― Bernie Taupin, Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton, and Me

“Five years previously, Janice had embroidered the album cover of Madman Across the Water and was the main inspiration for the seamstress for the band in “Tiny Dancer,” a song inhabited by fragments of a handful of LA females: a Whisky a Go Go waitress, a girl who worked in a Beverly Hills shoe store, and a hitchhiker in cutoffs on Pacific Coast Highway.”
― Bernie Taupin, Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton, and Me

“The lies we tell ourselves are often stronger than the truth. They worm their way into our hearts and our minds until they are all we see”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Christmas Tree Farm