Taylor Swift Quotes

New life situations equal out to new kinds of songs.

I don't think of work between albums. Of course, I go through regular life and I live and I experience different things, good and bad, and it does help me, but I don't think about writing or what I'm gonna do with whatever's going on while I'm going through it.

I am a songwriter. I do get to put my personal experiences in song.

Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!

I probably get most of my inspiration through music.

I'm a songwriter; it's in my nature to express things openly.

Songwriting has become such a big part of what I do that emotions and the melodies that accompany them blur into one.

I can't legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for me.

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.

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 songwriting process, and maybe loads of other people's, is just this sort of smashing together of emotions and stuff to make some music. It's kind of simple and really complex at the same time and, as you can see, incredibly hard to explain.

Sometimes I feel like I finish a song, and there's another song that I have to write in response to that song. Each is like its own separate feeling, its own separate universe.

I don't get my inspiration from a specific source. It's more like if you listen to a good tune, it gives me inspiration to write a better tune.

My, oh my, how 'Sometimes When We Touch' has travelled since I solemnly wrote my first version at the age of 19.

There's usually a rhythm and a melody in my head, and that creates an emotional state.

Songwriting is a mysterious art. When I sit down to write a song, the end result should be mysterious and have this dark quality.

I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isn't a song that I need to sing.

I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs.

Those emotions that are really strong, the ones that inspire a song, you can hold onto that. You can let it marinate for years and keep writing about it even better than you did then.

I do not know who sings my songs / Before they are sung by me.

It's rather mystifying when you think about writing songs - where they come from, and how they're born.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

Sometimes a song that didn't make one record will stay in my head for so long and just won't go away. I take that as a hint to keep 'em close and not forget about them.

Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it's collecting things and I know when I get a moment to be by myself, that's when they come out.

I feed on other people's creativity, photographers, artists of every kind. Sometimes a feeling that you get listening to a song can be so powerful. I've wanted to write whole scripts around what I felt just listening to a piece of music. I think music is important, and surrounding your visual field with stimulating things.