Taylor Swift Quotes

I just want to write a great lyric and write a great song, and everything else is icing on the cake.

If I couldn't sing tomorrow, I'd still write songs cos I'm passionate about that.

It doesn't take me long to write songs.

Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.

I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting.

I started writing songs when I was eight.

There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.

I'm writing songs to perform, to entertain. And when I'm really trying to get inspired, I go backwards, and I just rap.

I don't set goals for myself too much, but I'm always trying to write that one great song.

I started playing guitar when I was 13. I'd written a few songs on the guitar over some time. I'd written a book of poetry, and I got a book of lyrics that I had when I was a kid.

I really feel like I've nailed songwriting. It's my specialty; it's what I'm good at.

There's nothing I'd say that keeps me awake at night, but I think that - when you're working with a group of people that are so beyond talented - that, every day, you wake up going, 'All right, I gotta fight to stay at the same level as these people.' That's what makes it fun.

I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.

If you want to be a songwriter, you've got to obsess over it.

I wrote my first song when I was about eight. It was about putting a diaper on a chicken!

I'm just getting back into my songwriting groove. It's still pretty early. But I don't want to make 'Hero 2.' It's going to be different.

I try and treat songwriting as something that I have to practise every day.

As a songwriter, I go into the studio, and I just try to write a great song.

I've never had trouble finding inspiration for new songs, no matter what I'm doing.

I started songwriting at around age 12, and that was it. I never really stopped. Nothing else ever really crossed my mind. It's truly the expression of who I am.

I wish I wrote 'Paper Planes' by M.I.A.

I try not to repeat a story. I try not to repeat an emotion. I want it to be all sort of new for the viewers and to challenge myself as a writer, so there's always pressure. What else can you come up with?

It would be fun to write with Adele, actually. She seems like a fun girl to write with.

As a songwriter, you try your best to write a good song, and you like nothing better than hearing a good song. It's easy to admire a great song, and you want to share out of enthusiasm.

Being a songwriter is really the base of being an artist, for me.