“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.”

American singer-songwriter and guitarist

James Vernon Taylor is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He became widely known in the early 1970s, and his name is closely tied to the songs that made him a major voice in popular music. He has 80 quotes on the site. Taylor broke through with "Fire and Rain", which reached No. 3, and earned his first No. 1 hit in 1971 with his version of Carole King's "You've Got a Friend". His 1976 Greatest Hits album was certified Diamond and sold 11 million copies in the United States alone, placing it among the best-selling albums in American history.