It's easy to sort of get lost. I feel tempted to talk about Kurt Cobain a little bit. I really dug his music. You do it because there's an element of alienation in your life. It's something that has to be survived.
Some people celebrate it.
I'm somewhere in the middle, I guess. Taylor is still quietly traveling that middle road, releasing albums that routinely go platinum and doing summer tours that pack amphitheaters. And though fame is sometimes tough, Taylor makes it clear in a rare interview that he's not complaining. His rapid-fire success in the early 70's ran counter to what was going on in rock music at the time. By downsizing, he sparked a quiet, totally unplanned revolution in music.