Quotes from James Taylor

There ain't no doubt in my mind that love is the finest thing around

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

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

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

In my mind I'm going to Carolina. Can't you see the sunshine, can't you just feel the moonshine? Ain't it just like a friend of mine, to hit me from behind, and I'm goin' to Carolina in my mind.

You have to choose whether to love yourself or not.

The SECRET to Love is in OPENING up your Heart

My brother Alex fell in love with rhythm and blues early and gave me a strong dose of it.

The sides are steep and the nights are long and cold down in the hole, light and love and the world above mean nothing to the mole.

If you feel like singing along, don't.

A song is what you fall in love with first, but then I think a band's ideals and a band's sense of fashion and a sense of how they treat people is what you fall in love with afterwards.

Something I do love about social media is how you can expand your idea. You can make an extension of your art as opposed to just using it for promotion.

Within my heart is carved a sculpture of your love.

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.

I was in chemical jail.

When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity.

Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you.

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 find it a lot healthier for me to be someplace where I can go outside in my bare feet.

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

I'm trying to look at my blessings and how amazingly well against all odds things have turned out for me.

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

Photographers and reporters are mostly after me. They want to know what I read and what I'm like and I don't really know myself, so how can I tell them?