Taylor Swift Quotes

Those people that have hardened to rejection or hardened to life in general, it's pretty hard to feel them. You know, to look at their eyes on screen and feel them. I guess that's specifically talking about actors, but I think that's probably [true] in general. You want to keep your skin thin.

Yes, all my songs come from personal experience and relationships.

I'm not afraid to use my personal experiences and put them into a song. I think that's when you get the best stuff anyway, when it's real emotion.

'Before I Ever Met You' was the first one to come out and that just dives into the grit, and it's pretty graphic about a relationship. For my first song, it was very special the way it happened, because I didn't really hold anything back, and people responded to it.

I'm such an emotional and sensitive person, so it only makes sense that my songs are as well.

I'm not really interested in myself in my writing. I can't see myself in the songs, even though I know different parts of me are there.

I am either blessed or cursed with having little barrier between feeling emotions and displaying them for all to see. My heart is on my sleeve. It's not comfortable but... I am an artist so it's useful and my friends are used to me getting teary at any moment.

I have to not harden my heart, because I want to stay open to feel things.

As a writer, as a storyteller, you have to have your emotions close, and the older I've gotten, the less I've worried about not displaying emotions.

Sometimes I was in a mood to write a song as if I was writing in my journal and reveal certain parts of me that I was ready to reveal.

Anybody who wears their feelings on their sleeve and has a harder, crusty shell - like I do - is definitely protecting an inner sensitivity.

The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art.

You can't be the vulnerable, transparent, raw person required to be an artist, and then cover that stuff up and meet the world with some kind of armor on. It just doesn't go.

I'm very emotional. I do feel stuff, for better or worse.

I don't want to think that anything is off limits for me to write about, but I also don't want to intrude on anybody's life, which is why there's very little specificity or names in the songs I write.

I'm an emotional guy, so I don't have to worry about a girl trying to get me to open up.

Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.

I'm a giant softy, for sure, but I honestly think these days it's probably considered more masculine to be emotionally connected.

I don't think that bravery is about skin. Bravery is about a willingness to show emotional need.

No, I am a crier and if people ever saw me privately they would be shocked at what a bowl of mush I am underneath it all.

I'm a crier. You won't see me lashing out, but you will see me crying a lot.

When I started to write 'Hannah's Child,' I realized that this had to be a book of passion, to have a certain kind of vulnerability. I think that people respond to that.

You have to have a somewhat cold heart to be a writer.

I'd always been fascinated by people who allow themselves to be so rude and irritated and foul-mouthed and hostile, but usually you can sense there's something vulnerable beneath them - a shield they use to protect that vulnerable side. Finally, when they expose that soft spot, it's kind of touching.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.