James taylor

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

We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.

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.

If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.

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

I think it surprises a lot of people that I'm still around, you know, still - that I'm not pushing up daisies, as they say.

I don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium.

I was a functional addict.

I'm glad that I still have the ability to tour in Europe. I do love it.

Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.