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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Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it...

Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it...

I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar...

I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar...

I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.

I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.

Keep your head together and call my name out loud.

Keep your head together and call my name out loud.

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...

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.

You just call out my name, and you know where ever I am I'll come...

You just call out my name, and you know where ever I am I'll come...

Suzanne, the plans they made put an end to you.

Suzanne, the plans they made put an end to you.

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

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

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...

Just yesterday morning, they let me know you were gone.

Just yesterday morning, they let me know you were gone.

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...

People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply...

People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply...

If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.

If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.

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

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

I walked out this morning and I wrote down this song.

I walked out this morning and I wrote down this song.

If you feel like singing along, don't.

If you feel like singing along, don't.

You've just got to see me through another day.

You've just got to see me through another day.

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...

We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.

We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.