Quotes from James Taylor

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

I don't reinvent myself in any major way. It seems to be a slow evolution. I go back and visit certain themes that I feel strongly about and resonate with me emotionally.

Music is my living. I enjoy selling my music.

I enjoy selling my music. I don't enjoy selling myself.

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

Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.

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

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

I've seen fire and I've seen rainI've seen sunny days that I thought would never endI've seen lonely times when I could not find a friendBut I always thought that I'd see you again.

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.

I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.

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.

Music is like a huge release of tension.

Performing is a profound experience, at least for me. It's not as if I sit down and play 'Fire and Rain' by myself, just to hear it again. But to offer it up... the energy that it somehow summons live takes me right back, and I do get a reconnection to the emotions.

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

Music is my living. I enjoy selling my music.

Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.

That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.

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.

Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

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.

Performing is a profound experience, at least for me.

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.

Never give up, never slow down, never grow old and never ever die young.