American - Musician | March 12, 1948 -
If I were to try to identify a turning point I'd say that was it - getting clean.
James Taylor
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I find it a lot healthier for me to be someplace where I can go outside in my bare feet.
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Things started to get out of control when I began reading that I was a superstar.
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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?
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Music is my living. I enjoy selling my music.
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I don't get into heavy political numbers because I don't find them lyrical.
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I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.
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When you write a song, it may come from a personal space, but it very seldom actually represents you. It comes out of a sort of mood of melancholy, somehow. It's almost theatrical.
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I played the cello from when I was ten, and then I bought a guitar from the father of some friends of mine and played that for a while. And then when I was fourteen or so, I bought a guitar - a real nice one - in Durham, North Carolina, that I worked with up until I was about twenty-five.
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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.
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I'm trying to look at my blessings and how amazingly well against all odds things have turned out for me.
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Ireland, Italy and Brazil are the most musical places for me. They're extremely musical cultures and anything you pitch they basically catch.
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