Taylor Swift Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you're heartbroken, but tomorrow you'll be in love again.

  Taylor Swift

  Love, Life, Relationship

  "Five Questions with Taylor Swift". www.seventeen.com. January 20, 2009.

• For a female to write about her feelings, and then be portrayed as some clingy, insane, desperate girlfriend in need of making you marry her and have kids with her, I think that's taking something that potentially should be celebrated - a woman writing about her feelings in a confessional way - that's taking it and turning it and twisting it into something that is frankly a little sexist.

  Taylor Swift

  Girlfriend, Kids, Writing

  "Cover Preview: Taylor Swift Fights Back About Her Love Life, the Hyannis Port House—and Has Words for Tina Fey and Amy Poehler". www.vanityfair.com. March 5, 2013.

• I find it relatively easy to keep my clothes on because I don't really feel like taking them off. It's not an urge I have. For me, 'risky' is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is. That's putting myself out there, maybe even more than taking my shirt off.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Writing, Clothes

  "Taylor Swift’s March Glamour Cover Is Gorgeous (Duh)" by Jamie Feldman, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 4, 2014.

• I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Writing, Ideas

• I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Writing, Who I Am

• You can write a book on how to ruin someone’s perfect day.

  Taylor Swift

  Book, Writing, Perfect Days

• But no matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it. You have ot believe in love stories and prince charmings and happily ever after. That's why I write these songs. Because I think love is FEARLESS.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Believe, Writing

• I would love to continue in music, with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60!

  Taylor Swift

  Writing, Kids, Garden

• If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Writing, Ifs

  "Taylor Swift looks pretty, talks writing songs about ex-boyfriends and her fears about ending up alone" by Stephanie Wood, www.mirror.co.uk. March 6, 2013.

• And if you're horrible to me I'm going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That's how I operate.

  Taylor Swift

  Love, Life, Relationship

• I write a lot of songs about love and I think that’s because to me love seems like this huge complicated thing. But it seems like every once in a while, two people get it figured out, two people get it right. And so I think the rest of us, we walk around daydreaming about what that might be like. To find that one great love, where all of a sudden everything that seemed to be so complicated, became simple. And everything that used to seem so wrong all of a sudden seemed right because you were with the person who made you feel fearless.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Writing, Thinking

• When we're falling in love or out of it, that's when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I'm very happy to do that.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Falling In Love, Writing

  "Taylor Swift: 'I want to believe in pretty lies'" by Alex Macpherson, www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2012.

• Throughout all of the changes that have happened in my life, one of the priorities I've had is to never change the way I write songs and the reasons I write songs. I write songs to help me understand life a little more. I write songs to get past things that cause me pain. And I write songs because sometimes life makes more sense to me when it's being sung in a chorus, and when I can write it in a verse.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Pain, Writing

• I still love sparkles and grocery shopping and really old cats that are only nice to you half the time. I still love writing in my journal and wearing dresses all the time and staring at chandeliers.

  Taylor Swift

  Nice, Writing, Cat

• I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Writing, Order

• I would read the Shel Silverstein poems, Dr. Seuss, and I noticed early on that poetry was something that just stuck in my head and I was replaying those rhymes and try to think of my own. In English, the only thing I wanted to do was poetry and all the other kids were like, "Oh, man. We have to write poems again?" and I would have a three-page long poem. I won a national poetry contest when I was in fourth grade for a poem called "Monster In My Closet.

  Taylor Swift

  Kids, Writing, Men

• The words. I love words. I love to write. Being an artist is what I love.

  Taylor Swift

  Writing, Artist, Being An Artist

• When I think about the things that cause me pain or the things that cause me trouble or frustration, it's not people asking for my autograph; it's people breaking my heart. That happens to you whether you've sold millions of records or whether you're taking classes at college. You're going to believe people when they say that they love you. I don't leave out details when I write songs about that. I try to make my songs as personal as possible because, ultimately, my music started out as just trying to turn my diary entries into something that was a piece of music. And that has never changed.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Pain, Love You

• Having room to run and having just the space to use your imagination and create stories out of everyday life, I think that had a lot to do with me wanting write. And write songs

  Taylor Swift

  Running, Song, Writing

• I watched their reactions and emotions, especially to understand what was what I was doing wrong. But then I realized that if I could see these people and take note of everything I saw, I could write a good song.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Writing, People

• (Talks about Lucky You) "The song was about a girl who didn't fit in and she didn't care and she was different than everyone else. I think there's a long chorus of me singing "Do do do do do do do do do do". It's very young and I look back and it's kind of interesting to hear those kind of storylines and the lyrics that I used to write compared to the lyrics that I write now.

  Taylor Swift

  Girl, Song, Writing

• My dad is adorably optimistic, positive, pie-in-the-sky. He thinks every new song I write is my best. He sells T-shirts at my merchandise stands and hands out guitar picks to fans.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Dad, Writing

• I'm not afraid to write my feelings in songs.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Writing, Feelings

• I've learned through writing that if something made me feel deeply or anything at all, it was worth it.

  Taylor Swift

  Writing, I've Learned, Made

• Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Writing, Ends

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