James Taylor“My first successful song was ‘Fire and Rain,’ which starts with losing a friend to suicide. There’s a cumulative emotional quality to it, a message that’s useful to hear. It’s because it helps to share it with other people and to expiate it—to have it out in front of you. What you always hope for as a songwriter is that your way of manifesting your emotions will be useful to other people. In modern culture, do we go too far in the direction of never doing anything that’s unpleasant?

Source: Wall Street Journal February 06, 2020 13:41 UTC