K. Taylor Quotes

I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.

What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous.

Just nine lucky soldiers had come through the night, half of them wounded and barely alive. Just nine out of twenty was headed for home, with eleven stories to tell.

If you feel like singing along, don't.

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

I don't find the songs; they find me. I just strum my guitar and wait for a lyric to come.

I have a studio in a barn at home - we rehearse there, we film there and we record there. It's fun to hang out with my guys and see what comes out next.

The Beatles were a phenomenon, but they were also ordinary blokes like anyone else. I was lucky enough to see that side.

I don't get into heavy political numbers because I don't find them lyrical.

Things started to get out of control when I began reading that I was a superstar.

Synchronized with the rising moon Even with the evening star They were true love written in stone They were never alone, they were never that far apart

I told you that I love you, I was only telling a lie. I'll be long gone come the crack of dawn and I believe the word is goodbye.

It's hard to find a way forward. When you're 18 it happens in huge chunks every day, but after 20 years, growth is much more costly.

It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical.

I gathered up my sorrows and I sold them all for gold. And I gathered up the gold, and I threw it all away.

There's a lot more information at hand and sometimes there's information overload and we become desensitized to it, so things start to mean less.

The Test arena is a place I have been desperate to get back to, it is the pinnacle of the sport

I'm grateful to my audience, that there are people who will buy a ticket and come and see us play and who essentially support me and this life of music.

The relationship, the marriage, the commitment, the partnership... This is the holy ground.

It's easier to make an album, harder to figure out how to get people to notice it.

It's true that I can write a song and not really be sure what the meaning of it is.

I think of myself as a highly spiritual person, but without - I was never really given a religion or a religious experience or a community to sort of subscribe to.

Live from the inside out. Your mind, body and spirit are interconnected. Nourish your soul with mental and physical wellness.

Karma is the tension of the thread in the human tapestry.

Congress will always couple one bad idea with another, the better to 'offset' them.

...Learn to give thanks for everything.

Friendship is the strongest bond in the world.

Faith is the root of all blessings. Believe, and you shall be saved; believe, and you must needs be satisfied; believe, and you cannot but be comforted and happy

He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.

To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires by your fortune, and not your fortune by your desires.

Temperance is reason's girdle and passion's bridle, the strength of the soul and the foundation of virtue.

A great fear, when it is ill-managed, is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well-guided fear produces religion.

So long as idleness is quite shut out from our lives, all the sins of wantonness, softness, and effeminacy are prevented; and there is but little room for temptation.

God fails not to sow blessings in the furrows.

Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.

The Holy Ghost is certainly the best preacher in the world, and the words of Scripture the best sermons.

If thou has a bundle of thorns in thy lot, there is no need to sit down on it.

Teach us to pray often, that we may pray oftener.

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.

The private and personal blessings we enjoy- the blessings of immunity, safeguard, liberty and integrity- deserve the thanksgiving of a whole life.

When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.

God hath prepared a little coronet or special reward (extraordinary and beside the great crown of all faithful souls) for those who have not defiled themselves with women.

Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.

All dreams reflect inborn creativity and ability to face and solve life's problems.

To preserve a man alive in the midst of so many chances and hostilities, is as great a miracle as to create him.

When thou receivest praise, take it indifferently, and return it to God, the giver of the gift, or blesser of the action.

The greatest evils, are from within us; and from ourselves also we must look for the greatest good.

The devil does not tempt people whom he finds suitably employed.

He that is choice of his time will be choice of his company, and choice of his actions.

Faith gives new light to the soul, but it does not put our eyes out; and what God hathgivenusinournature could never be intended as a snare to Religion, or engage us to believe a lie.