Taylor Swift Quotes

The idea of writing songs because you're depressed and you need to communicate it somehow, that isn't really true for me.

I've used songwriting as a tool, I've used it as a way of being able to talk about how I feel.

When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.

Songwriting is therapeutic for me.

I love pouring my heart out. People don't want to hear you whine when you're with friends, so you can sing about it instead - it's the best outlet.

I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.

I wasn't a very academic kid, and music was the way for all that feeling and angst and sex and love and anger to be channelled.

People think my work is therapeutic. I don't see it that way. It's not like I'm saving money from a weekly therapy visit by writing down my life.

Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music.

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.

I write most of my songs when I'm in a bad mood.

I think I write songs because of pent-up feelings.

I'm not afraid to write my feelings in songs.

I get things out of my system through my songs, but, because they can be about so many different things, it takes me a while to get through them emotionally.

My songwriting... it's almost like a kind of self-therapy.

I've been writing a lot of songs about my personal life and identity. That can be a real healing process.

I write songs when I need to. That's how I write songs: when there's something that's bugging me. If something's troubling me, and I don't really know how to articulate it to people directly - my friends, my family, or my girlfriend - then I'll write a song about it because I know I can articulate it that way.

When I write sad songs, I feel like I'm sewing up a scar in me, and the outcome always feels so much better than when I write happy ones.

Music is just where I sort of write my emotions down.

I feel like songwriting, for me, is kind of therapy.

I don’t have a problem baring my emotions in music. That’s one of the reasons I’m glad to have music in my life. I’m pretty resilient as far as being a human being. A lot of songs write themselves.

Music is about expressing things you can't in everyday life.

Part of my therapy is to write.

I love to cry. It's great.

We all sing about the things we're thinking; musicals are about expressing those emotions that you can't talk about. It works a real treat.