Americans work a long away ahead of themselves because of the size of the place. To make any impact at all you have to promote yourself with live performances ages before a release.
James Taylor

Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what's important and what's not.
James Taylor

Certain things in life are more important than the usual crap that everyone strives for.
James Taylor

Fortunately, it doesn't seem to have made a lot of difference to my audience that I'm as bald as a billiard ball!
James Taylor

I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character.
James Taylor

I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.
James Taylor

I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.
James Taylor

I can take criticisms but not compliments.
James Taylor

I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.
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.
James Taylor

I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.
James Taylor

I don't think anyone really says anything new.
James Taylor

I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.
James Taylor

I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else.
James Taylor

I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.
James Taylor

I was a functional addict.
James Taylor

I was in chemical jail.
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.
James Taylor

If I were to try to identify a turning point I'd say that was it - getting clean.
James Taylor

If the gig's going really well, I'm incredibly happy on stage and really feel good about my life and things.
James Taylor