Taylor Swift Quotes

There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.

Writing is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public

The songs that you start to write that you are a little scared of can be the ones that you have to tell.

Writing is very different to having your photo taken. You are exposing yourself more, not physically but emotionally.

I spend my whole life trying to put up a front to prevent people from seeing certain parts of me. Weirdly, when I go to write, I feel like I have to expose it, almost compulsively.

The writer must be in it; he can't be to one side of it, ever. He has to be endangered by it. His own attitudes have to be tested in it. The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing himself, always.

Once I wrote 'Atmosphere,' I thought, 'This is my story; it's me and my life and what I've gone through to get to where I am.' I'm not the best singer, but still. All of my albums are personal, but putting myself out there and singing is one more thing that makes me vulnerable - one more thing that people can fire shots at.

One of the difficult things, especially about blogging, is that you put all of your personal out there, into the political. And what's been difficult, for me at least, is trying to keep some of the personal for myself.

If you're dealing with personal kind of acting, you're not going to want to open up and expose it to everybody, because that's where the power lies, you know? It would be a little like showing your hand in poker, and then hoping you can still win.

When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.

The reality is that the work I do is not private work. I bring all my secrets, my life, to my work. Anybody who's seen my work knows everything about me.

I don't know what else you could do that is more vulnerable - maybe dancing - than singing.

As an actor, you put yourself out there. You put yourself in the arena as an easy target.

The great comics can fall on their faces, but then they can say, 'Oh, baby, you're the greatest.' They show their heart and their vulnerability.

When you mess up publicly, it can be difficult to get vulnerable again or to put yourself out there.

Singing, to me, just feels really vulnerable.

It earns you a lot of snark if you're able to convey vulnerability.

I'm not comfortable doing nudity. That's something quite personal.

The thing with 'Lost Without You' is that for a long time I didn't feel like I could share it with people. When it came to releasing it, it was a cliff-diving moment.

Being vulnerable is the hardest thing for so many people, including myself, but it's also the most satisfying thing.

I put so much of myself out there and make myself so accessible that sometimes I fear I make myself too accessible.

To be a great creator, you have to be vulnerable. You're creating characters that have a little bit of yourself in them... And you want to know it's a safe environment for that.

I hope to write someday and that’s even more terrifying than performing. You don’t just entertain the audience, you give them little bits of your soul.

If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.

I was vulnerable every day. Every night that I stepped on stage I was laying myself open.