240 Quotes by James Taylor

I’ve written a number of songs over the years and it’s a big part of my life, this sort of tension between a longing for home and the call for the open road. It’s sort of like a tug between two families. I even love to miss my home.

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

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

Songs are like myths. Myths are useful because they allow you to cast yourself and your life and your own experience. And for some people, ‘Fire and Rain’ speaks to them in that way.

It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical. But it's what everyone wants - to get everyone's attention, to have your music make a living for you, to be validated in that way.