James Vernon Taylor turns 65 today. There are a bunch of obvious jokes to be made, but they won't be by me. It kind of seems like the older I get, the more tolerable James Taylor becomes. Which may be the idea. I'm not running out to buy a Greatest Hits or anything, but I won't make exaggerated gagging expressions anymore every time I come across "Fire and Rain," which is still surprisingly frequently when you consider that the song is from like the first Nixon administration and there are fewer and fewer places than ever that play the radio these days, and yet wherever there are, Fire and Fucking [...]

"To me, he's like the black James Taylor." —Pharrell Williams insults rising R&B star Frank Ocean, while trying to praise him.