Taylor Swift Quotes

I get a lot of my songwriting done while driving around Nashville - sometimes it comes to me that way.

Song ideas have come to me in the middle of interviews, in the shower, or while I'm writing another song.

When I'm on a plane, I am the annoying person humming into my phone. Sitting there static with nothing to do, a lot of melodies come to me. So I've written a lot of songs on planes.

I've been a list maker for years, even before I was a musician. I was always writing things down and kept long lists of things that would make good album titles and things like that. I'm constantly thinking in terms of songwriting.

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.

I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.

Everything I see and hear... I will take ideas from anyplace, anywhere, anytime, and life has become a song to me. I'm always looking for a song.

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

One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.

I haven't written an awful lot recently, but I think I probably will start again very shortly. Being so much on the road, when you have a couple of weeks off, you're likely to avoid sitting at the piano, and taping, and giving yourself more work to do.

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

Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words to it for years. Suddenly something comes to me that works just right.

I try to read a lot and listen to a lot of good songwriters, and I try to actually work on the craft of writing a song rather than just leaving it up to inspiration.

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

I ain't never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder.

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

I guess everywhere I go, I get inspired by those places, and then I have a bunch of Voicenotes on my phone. Everywhere I go, I think of these random melodies. It's crazy because everywhere you go, the melodies are totally different.

I've got so many melodies in my head.

It was actually working with Kendrick Lamar that pushed me further into the act of songwriting, specifically.

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

What I can feel the most and what I can remember the most are the melodies I want to write to.

A song is such a short form ... that 'the slightest flaw seems like a mountain.' And so every song needs to be revised 'til it's close to perfection... But achieving perfection takes a lot of energy.

People say, "How do you write songs?" I say, "Patience." I may have a track that's hot, but no words. I'll just let it sit for years, because I know they're going to meet. They'll find it.

Sometimes touring can warp reality because you're never in one place long enough to get a feel for it. You don't interact with people long enough to know what real life is. That's why a lot of artists write songs about longing and missing people when they're on the road. I do my best to keep my mind open and I read a lot when I'm on tour, so I hope I have good things to write about. I'm constantly in the songwriting process.

I would always write lyrics and songs on the piano.