3 December 2020 James Taylor I know there are people who don’t like their audience or like the experience of being recognized or celebrated, but my audience has been very good – they don’t bother me and when they do contact me it’s usually on the nicest possible terms.
3 December 2020 James Taylor If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.
3 December 2020 James Taylor I’m glad about what’s happening to the music business. This last crop of people we had in the 90s, who are going away now, they didn’t like music. They didn’t trust musicians. They wanted something else from it.
3 December 2020 James Taylor I’m very unstable there’s no stability in a musician’s life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don’t know where your money’s coming from.
3 December 2020 James Taylor People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don’t get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don’t start a family before you’re ready to settle down.
3 December 2020 James Taylor It’s probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it’s a failure.
3 December 2020 James Taylor Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That’s what it couldn’t stand.
3 December 2020 James Taylor Though ‘Fire and Rain’ is very personal, for other people it resonates as a sort of commonly held experience… And that’s what happens with me. I write things for personal reasons, and then in some cases it… can be a shared experience.
3 December 2020 James Taylor I don’t read music. I don’t write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.
