Taylor Swift Quotes

Just like any songwriter, I love it when people sing my songs.

Whenever you write music, you want it to touch people on a certain level. I mean, I've been reading tweets about 'Troublemaker' and people saying 'OMG, I can so relate to this - this is a guy that I fancy, or a girl that I fancy; it's exactly like this person.'

The biggest thrill you can have is to tell people one of your songs, and have them be able to hum it.

I found out a long time ago that if I didn't have a good story for a song, I could just make one up! Now it seems over half the stories in my show are made up. The funny thing is, those seem to be the ones that resonate the most with the audiences.

To write a song and have it embraced by someone, even one person, I don't think that's something that everyone gets to experience.

To go on the road and see people sing my own lyrics back to me is just fantastic.

I love knowing that people are connecting to my lyrics, my music and me.

Nothing is more rewarding than to take a song, create it out of thin air and then watch it affect people.

When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs.

I love having other people sing my songs.

As a songwriter, that's really what you hope for - to make that connection with your audience.

The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.

It feels really good that people are connecting to my music so much.

I honestly just hope to continue creating music that people can relate to and connect with in a personal way.

When you're a writer, your song has to resonate with the person you're writing for in order for them to want to sing it. But if you're an artist, you can sing whatever you want.

I'm just going to sing my music; I'm going to write my songs, and I think that people get to know me in that sense.

Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.

It is one of the most validating things for an artist like me, to have people sing along to your songs.

When you work on an album for three and a half years, you're kind of ready for it to get out there. To have your songs reach people.

There is a formula that allows you to write a decent song. But a song like 'You're All I Need to Get By,' it just writes itself.

My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, 'Girl, you make me see pictures in my head!' and I took that as a great compliment. That's exactly my intention.

It doesn't matter if a critic pans or praises my movies, I am only concerned about that one audience member and what their experience is.

I should write a musical. That is probably one of the final areas that I should pay attention to, because it does kind of involve everything. It's got theatre, it's got young, pretty people... And it's got money!

It wasn't until I wrote 'Hideaway' that I found the song I related to as an artist.

I just want to make art that connects with people and moves them on an emotional level. Any time I can put out music and place a story behind it and have people watch it and go, 'Wow, I was affected by that,' to me, feels like I've done my job.