D. J. Taylor Quotes

Did you know that mako shark fetuses eat each other in the womb?... Its true. Only cannibal fetuses survive to be born. Can you imagine if people were like that?

...something was starting to take shape, out of magic and will. Smoke and bone.

Never let stress shape your strategy. Most women think better after a brisk walk, a light meal, a massage and a nap.

He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.

When I meet my fans, it's not like meeting a stranger. It's like saying hello to someone that I already know.

Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one.

All it really needed was the proper point of view. No one's gonna bring me down.

Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.

You can write a book on how to ruin someone’s perfect day.

The little I am exposed to hurts my feelings. The only things I can really control are my songs and my behavior. The rest? If I focused on it, that would lead to insanity.

I'm gonna find someone someday who might actually treat me well

The beginning of love is all about the butterflies, but the end of it is when you can't get out of bed in the morning.

Deep greens and blues are the colors I choose Won't you let me go down in my dreams?

My parents have always been very respectful of me so I’ve always been really respectful of them. My worst fear is to let them down so that’s why I don’t misbehave.

I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die.

Never compare yourself to beautiful girls.

My brother Alex fell in love with rhythm and blues early and gave me a strong dose of it.

I'm glad that I still have the ability to tour in Europe. I do love it.

So watch me strike a match on all my wasted time. As far as I'm concerned you're just another picture to burn.

Real love still happens sometimes. It's not just something we make up when you're nine. I have to believe that. You do too.

In high school, I used to think it was "like sooooo cool" if a guy had an awesome car. Now none of that matters. These days I look for character and honesty and trust.

If the gig's going really well, I'm incredibly happy on stage and really feel good about my life and things.

Seems like there's always someone who disapproves. They'll judge it like they know about me and you.

I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.

If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.

Songs are like myths. Myths are useful because they allow you to cast yourself and your life and your own experience. And for some people, 'Fire and Rain' speaks to them in that way.

When you’re young you just run, but you come back to what you need.

I think that growing up is something that you should do gradually.

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

I’ve never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.

Dating or finding someone is the last thing on my mind.

There are no rules when it comes to love.

In my experience—and I admit I didn't anticipate this—most blacks are delighted to have a 100-percent honest conversation with a white man about race.

The body of our prayer is the sum of our duty; and as we must ask of God whatsoever we need, so we must watch and labor for all that we ask.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities, the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds.

Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.

Whoever is a hypocrite in his religion mocks God, presenting to Him the outside and reserving the inward for his enemy.

To be perpetually longing and impatiently desirous of anything, so that a man cannot abstain from it, is to lose a man's liberty, and to become a servant of meat and drink, or smoke.

Impatience turns an ague into a fever, a fever to the plague, fear into despair, anger into rage, loss into madness, and sorrow to amazement.

I think I'm smart unless I'm really, really in love and then I am ridiculously stupid.

I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write.

I wouldn't wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life so I don't think it's necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots.

My mom and I have always been really close. She’s always been the friend that was always there.

And for me, I guess the person who I tell everything that I'm going through is you. The fans.

I believe when it comes to love, there's something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don't think I have a pattern.

Set your sails now but the ocean is very rough and treacherous... if you keep going you will get there.

You've had your share of secrets and I'm tired of being the last to know

May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping earth!