Taylor Swift Quotes

When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.

Music is just where I sort of write my emotions down.

Music is about expressing things you can't in everyday life.

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.

The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.

I'm not afraid to use my personal experiences and put them into a song. I think that's when you get the best stuff anyway, when it's real emotion.

For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song.

We all sing about the things we're thinking; musicals are about expressing those emotions that you can't talk about. It works a real treat.

I love classical music and have been playing violin since I was seven. Music helps me to express feelings in a way words often cannot.

I write songs from the heart, and I don't hold back.

I feel, as a songwriter, it's one of the hardest things to do - to sit down and say how you feel.

I feel what I sing, and I sing what I feel. Really, that's all I can do.

I've found that in now having experienced what it's like to make records and just through growing up in general that you should be expressive about what's affecting you instead of trying to sing about a subject just for the sake of other people getting something from it.

Most of the songs I wrote are personal.

If I write when I'm low, it will be a dark song, but I don't care. I want to be honest with myself at all times.

I write my songs because I've lived them.

If it makes you cry, it goes in the show.

Nobody can tell you you're wrong for writing a song about how you feel - even if you don't really feel that way.

I think I write songs because of pent-up feelings.

That's the great thing about songwriting: You have that time to have perspective and look back and think about all the things you'd want to say.

The beauty of being a musician is writing songs. That's the best part. It's therapeutic and honest and private.

My songs are my stories... good, bad, ugly, beautiful.

I've never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I've only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.

You know when you hear a lyric and you can tell that the person means it? That is really hard; that is so much harder than it seems: to find the topics that you're passionate about and have it come across as like, 'Yeah, that guy needed to sing that song.'

I am an open book through the songwriting.