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.

Taylor spent six months getting treatment and making a tentative recovery; he also required a throat operation to fix vocal cords damaged from singing too harshly. I knew James had that thing.

3 single "Fire and Rain" and had his first No. James Vernon Taylor (born March 12 1948) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Following his 1977 album JT he has retained a large audience over the decades.