James Taylor Quotes

I collect hats. That's what you do when you're bald.

I had a very moral upbringing, and spiritual in a sort of not very specific way.

I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.

What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous.

Just nine lucky soldiers had come through the night, half of them wounded and barely alive. Just nine out of twenty was headed for home, with eleven stories to tell.

If you feel like singing along, don't.

Knowing when to quit is probably a very important thing, but I just am not ready.

I don't find the songs; they find me. I just strum my guitar and wait for a lyric to come.

I have a studio in a barn at home - we rehearse there, we film there and we record there. It's fun to hang out with my guys and see what comes out next.

The Beatles were a phenomenon, but they were also ordinary blokes like anyone else. I was lucky enough to see that side.

I don't get into heavy political numbers because I don't find them lyrical.

Things started to get out of control when I began reading that I was a superstar.

Synchronized with the rising moon Even with the evening star They were true love written in stone They were never alone, they were never that far apart

I told you that I love you, I was only telling a lie. I'll be long gone come the crack of dawn and I believe the word is goodbye.

It's hard to find a way forward. When you're 18 it happens in huge chunks every day, but after 20 years, growth is much more costly.

It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical.

I gathered up my sorrows and I sold them all for gold. And I gathered up the gold, and I threw it all away.

There's a lot more information at hand and sometimes there's information overload and we become desensitized to it, so things start to mean less.

The Test arena is a place I have been desperate to get back to, it is the pinnacle of the sport

I'm grateful to my audience, that there are people who will buy a ticket and come and see us play and who essentially support me and this life of music.

The relationship, the marriage, the commitment, the partnership... This is the holy ground.

It's easier to make an album, harder to figure out how to get people to notice it.

It's true that I can write a song and not really be sure what the meaning of it is.

I think of myself as a highly spiritual person, but without - I was never really given a religion or a religious experience or a community to sort of subscribe to.

When you write a song, it may come from a personal space, but it very seldom actually represents you. It comes out of a sort of mood of melancholy, somehow. It's almost theatrical.