Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.
James Taylor['Fire and Rain'] is sort of almost uncomfortably close. Almost confessional. The reason I could write a song like that at that point, and probably couldn't now, is that I didn't have any sense that anyone would hear it. I started writing the song while I was in London...and I was totally unknown.... So I assumed that they would never be heard. I could just write or say anything I wanted. Now I'm very aware, and I have to deal with my stage fright and my anxiety about people examining or judging it. The idea that people will pass judgment on it is not a useful thought.
James TaylorI don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.
James TaylorI 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.
James Taylor