"If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you." ― James Taylor Topic(s): Music More From James Taylor "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." "I don’t read music. I don’t write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself." "That’s the motivation of an artist – to seek attention of some kind." More In Music "Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It’s equally humbling and uplifting."― Michael Stipe "Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder."― John Ruskin "Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music about affairs masculine and feminine, then take the leap in the dark."― Anthony Trollope