James Taylor: What is your idea of perfect happiness?

Originally asked

Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

Verbatim recurring item in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded James Taylor said elsewhere, not written here

Happiness is going to come and go, but to have a chance at intermittent happiness you need to be free from fear. In our culture, in our day, we can lose sight of what a rare gift that is: to live free from fear

The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 22 May 2015 source ↗

Others on this question

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Gayle King Broadcaster

Close friends, spectacular food, gorgeous weather, and interesting conversation!

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 5 July 2016 source ↗

Colson Whitehead

I’m walking down the street angrily muttering to myself and then I run into a neighbor or former coworker and they catch me in this moment of private-public expression. It’s nice to be seen sometimes.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 18 July 2023 source ↗

Dolly Parton American singer-songwriter, actress and businesswoman

A big loaded baked potato and a good book with time to eat it and read it.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 November 2012 source ↗

Garrison Keillor

To be wildly, desperately, carelessly, nakedly in love, of course. Crazy, obsessive love: brooding, baying at the moon, writing daily missives to the adored. Who wouldn’t want this? Even though the crash is painful.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 September 2009 source ↗