James Taylor

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.

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

If you're an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It's boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you stare at your shoes for six hours.

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

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.

The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.

People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down.

Music is my living. I enjoy selling my music.

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

Ireland, Italy and Brazil are the most musical places for me. They're extremely musical cultures and anything you pitch they basically catch.

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.

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