Taylor Swift Quotes

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.

One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!

I write a lot more when I'm happy, because you're hopeful, you're motivated.

I have to be creative to be happy.

I feel very free and very happy to be a composer.

The more I can stay on the creative side, the happier I am.

In the same way, I write some of my more difficult pieces when I'm at very happy stages in my life.

Joy is the zest that you get out of using your talents, your understanding, the totality of your being, for great aims...That's the kind of feeling that goes with creativity. That's why I say the courage to create. Creation does not come out of simply what you're born with. That must be united with your courage, both of which cause anxiety, but also great joy.

I think everyone has the potential to be creative, but they have to find the avenue or avenues that work for them.

For me, it's always just been about finding material that I think is creative and interesting and fun and something that can expand me and that I can hopefully do something with.

I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.

I always wanted to do something creative, but as much as I'm creative, it's in a really hard-core, right-brained way. For me, painting doesn't do it for me. There's no constraint.

I'm happy, I'm in a good place, I'm looking forward to my future.

The idea of singing and dancing throughout my life and finding that bliss is something I wanted to express and explore within myself and hopefully spread that idea to other people.

I like to have a lot of different creative outlets.

If I'm happy and joyous, which I have been a lot in my life, thankfully, I'm usually not at the piano writing about it.

I have found that nurturing our creative side feeds all aspects of one's life and those around us in a positive way.

That's what I love more than anything, just creating.

You just get satisfaction from achieving something that you just don't get in any other way than from being creative.

If I'm not creating, I'm not as happy.

The joy of creating is the truest joy.

Right now in my middle years, I'm getting to enjoy a resurgence of my own creativity, which I'm fully embracing and enjoying.

Creativity is essential to any kind of joyful living. Sometimes I act, sometimes I draw, I paint, I write poems. I can't imagine living without it.

I think doing something creative is the most important thing to me, and I think it's probably just good for the soul for anyone, whatever it is. You don't have to be a film director - you can do gardening or something - but I think everyone needs to create something.