Taylor Swift Quotes

Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in my music.

What's the point of a song if you can't be honest?

As a stand up, and often in acting, there is no place for the most intense feelings. Rage, genuine sorrow, naked hope... These things don't fit on a comedy stage and if you act you'll get to express them once in a while. Music is a place for the intensely personal.

I've never been one for keeping a journal, so my songs were my journals. They allowed me to express my feelings and let people know what was going on with me. I knew that somebody would relate.

When people like your music because it has vulnerable honesty, and you're able to comfortably admit to flaws and imperfections, then that's the most liberating thing about being an artist.

The most personal thing about me is my music. The most honest, pure thing in my whole life.

I feel it's much easier to be honest or be myself in songs when I'm playing. That's why I felt, 'You know, I'm going to write the truth.'

Mostly everything I've ever sung comes from a personal place.

As cliched as it sounds, music is my only form of expression. So I have to be honest with myself, and with that comes being vulnerable.

Even if the songs are at times painful - 'cause some of the songs are not all roses and balloons; some of them dig into deep things that I've been going through - there's a joy that I think people feel from my music and, hopefully, from my performance because I am so in love with doing what I do.

I find the greatest songs in the world come out of pain, and I don't like it! Here's what it does: It strips away all of your facade. It makes you so honest. It's cleansing.

I remember keeping a lot of journals and diaries and trying to form a complete thought just based off of those immediate, raw feelings. If anything, I was conscious about how I just always wanted to be as honest as possible, no matter how vulnerable it would make me seem.

I put my emotions in my music and I want people to relate to that.

I started writing songs by myself. That always came from whatever I was feeling and being honest about that because I never had any intention of anyone ever hearing them.

I'm a big emotional mess. I try to talk about things that people don't like to talk about, especially in music. Hopefully it reaches someone and lets them access their vulnerability. That's what I want it to accomplish.

How do I tell people who I am? Not being a writer, the only way is to sing songs that reflect my opinions.

Singing is just another outlet to express what I feel and to show everyone who I really am. I really don't talk about my personal life that much in interviews because that's my life, but with music, the way I write explains who I am.

I'm more honest in my lyrics than I am in anything else. It's where I feel the most safe to express myself.

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.

I've been writing a lot of songs about my personal life and identity. That can be a real healing process.

I mean, my stand-up is very honest and exposing in this way. I probably carry that into everything I do.

Pain's always been the root of my music. I just write what I feel.

Coming off 'Reflection,' what we really wanted to do was be more vulnerable.

'Crush' is probably the most honest project I've ever written. It's my voice.

It's very special that I can go through things - and write them down and record them - and so many people can relate. Not everybody can get out who they are and really feel better after they write.