Taylor Swift Quotes

No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.

Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know I've written a whole song in an hour.

You don't actually have ideas; ideas have you.

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.

It varies, I don't think there is any one set way of writing songs or coming up with ideas, it comes in so many ways you know.

We all love to sing, and when we sit down to write a song I think it kind of shows itself to us.

The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.

But over a period of time It's the melodic things that are in my head all day.

I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs.

Very often, writing a song is a process that happens to me rather than one that I instigate. I feel a song coming on and, like a sneeze; I wait for it until it comes.

My inspiration is endless; I can't define it. It is a constant flow and evolution. In general, I'm taking it from everywhere. People get nervous when they walk with me, as I'll see something and suddenly have to text it to myself.

Every song I've written is luck, I think; it's luck - 'How did that just happen?'

I can't write songs unless I am in love.

I've never really suffered complete and utter writer's block, really. I equate it with sex: in the beginning of my career, I was writing five songs a week; now, I occasionally write a song. But it's an exciting moment when it happens!

The great songs just come out. If it comes quick, just leave it that way.

Men should never marry their muse. It ruins the illusion.

My brain never turns off of songwriting. Every conversation, everything I see, I'm just kind of like a sponge and I soak it up.

You can't plan to write a great song. It just happens to you. It drops in your lap. It's the same thing with a woman.

Creation is a drug I can't do without.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.

There's an element to songwriting that I can't explain, that comes from somewhere else. I can't explain that dividing line between nothing and something that happens within a song, where you have absolutely nothing, and then suddenly you have something. It's like the origin of the universe.

Some of the best songs I've written, I've written in 10 minutes.

All is fair in love and songwriting.

I love the rush of being creative. I really think I live for it.