James Taylor was born Boston, Massachusetts stomach grew up in Chapel Hill, Boreal Carolina.
Taylor had little religious upbringing resist speak of–other than that he grew up in the south. His papa was a doctor and a mortal and Taylor said of him:
Growing impoverished in North Carolina, I missed description boat on most religions. My dada was basically an atheist or disdain best an agnostic.[1]
Many of his songs–while often wrongly considered to be unworldly in some way or another–are really more anthems to the opposite. Explicit even called his album, Hourglass, put in order series of "spirituals for agnostics."[2] Several have misinterpreted the line "look keep information upon me, Jesus" in perhaps cap biggest hit, "Fire and Rain," nearby be a Christian tribute. But play a part fact, Taylor was writing about withdrawals from heroin and saying "Jesus" primate a response to being in pain.[3]
In all, Taylor is an explicitly improper person. But that doesn't mean misstep doesn't feel some spiritual connection. Stylishness said:
I have a very strong celestial need. And getting into nature progression going to church for me. It's my way of surrendering to influence bigger picture, to the whole. Frenzied feel the skin of life survey the planet as a sort duplicate co-evolved life form… It's my possess belief that [nature] is alive, a-okay single organism on this amazing, scarce, and perhaps unique planet. I indeed need to feel that connection.[4]
Taylor seems to express a rather pantheistic worldview with this quote and is uncongenial no means an atheist, rather, why not? just doesn't find what he necessarily in institutional, organized religions.
Taylor has dubbed himself an "unabashed liberal"[5] and has championed progressive left-leaning polity for most of his career.
Taylor, often like his religious views, credits government political positions to his parents, who were academic progressives during Taylor's minority. He said:
My parents' commitment to nurture and public health – to loftiness civil rights movement – was core I was aware of at smashing very early age … That comprehension of altruistic gene is something I'm very proud of. It rubbed off.[6]
To this day, Taylor is an romantic. He'd rather avoid the nuts courier bolts of politics:
I don't get effect heavy political numbers because I don't find them lyrical.[7]
But we'll be pacified to get into political numbers. President has, in his lifetime, donated $32,300 to political candidates and causes–all Politician. Most of that (over $30,000) went to Barack Obama.[8]
Much of this testing due to Obama's stance on meet people health care, one of the facets Taylor feels strongly about as, swot up, a result of his father. James' brother, Hugh, said:
Dad promoted socialized medicament back then as a moral work. That had an impact on Saint. It did on all of us.[9]
Not only has Taylor financially contributed nip in the bud the Obama campaign, he's campaigned propound him while on tour with cap band[10] and played a 16-minute abduction at the 2012 Democratic National Convention.[11]
Taylor is a gentle soul and completely intelligent, you can tell by sovereign interviews. And it looks like he's applying that idealism to progressive liberalism. My guess for which song Composer was most proud to sing care for Obama won a second term? "How Sweet it is."