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.

Quote by James Taylor

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Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Well, they'll take your soul if you let them, oh yeah, but don't you let...

Well, they'll take your soul if you let them, oh yeah, but don't you let...

They'll hurt you and desert you.

They'll hurt you and desert you.

Knowing when to quit is probably a very important thing, but I just am not...

Knowing when to quit is probably a very important thing, but I just am not...

Fortunately, it doesn't seem to have made a lot of difference to my audience that...

Fortunately, it doesn't seem to have made a lot of difference to my audience that...

I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.

I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.

Close your eyes and think of me and soon I will be there to brighten...

Close your eyes and think of me and soon I will be there to brighten...

I don't think anyone really says anything new.

I don't think anyone really says anything new.

Been walking my mind to an easy time, my back turned towards the sun.

Been walking my mind to an easy time, my back turned towards the sun.

There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone...

There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone...

I can take criticisms but not compliments.

I can take criticisms but not compliments.

Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.

Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.

Music is like a huge release of tension.

Music is like a huge release of tension.

I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly...

I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly...

Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground.

Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground.

You have to choose whether to love yourself or not.

You have to choose whether to love yourself or not.

Once you get that two-way energy thing going, everyone benefits hugely.

Once you get that two-way energy thing going, everyone benefits hugely.

I just can't remember who to send it to.

I just can't remember who to send it to.

There's just a few things coming my way this time around, now.

There's just a few things coming my way this time around, now.

I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend.

I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend.