Taylor Swift Quotes

My films are always a reflection of where I am in my life.

I've never been a confessional writer.

Throughout my career as a songwriter, I've had a knack for writing songs that were about me and my life experiences and observations.

I write from my life, my experience. I'm selfish that way.

My lyrics are my diary - you're hearing every detail of my life.

My song-writing has always been just about my life - usually my worst moments.

All my songs come from me because I only seem able to write about myself and my experiences.

I've always drawn on bits and pieces of my own life.

All of my songs are autobiographical.

To me, writing is a personal thing; I write super-personal, autobiographically.

As autobiographical as say the stuff on 'Rumours' was, I don't think we thought of it as such when we were writing it.

All my works over the years have been autobiographical in the sense they reflect some part of my life, although I have fictionalised them to an extent.

We've always written from personal experiences.

'Tender' is my most strongly autobiographical play.

'M Train' is as close to knowing what I'm like as anything. I don't know exactly what the book is about. All and nothing, I suppose.

Most things I go through I have to write about.

I've written songs before, and I don't want to share them with anybody. It's really personal for me, that sort of creative outlet where you put your emotions to paper or put to song. I don't do it that much anymore, but to let someone in on that outlet and to have it susceptible to judgment is scary.

There's nothing particularly unique about my experiences except that they're my experiences.

Everyone eventually winds up writing about themselves - the problem is finding the best way to go about it. To write about oneself literally, in the first person, presumes a more interesting personal life and philosophy than most rock lyricists possess. John Lennon was good for one great album based on musical direct address, 'Plastic Ono Band.'

I have all these revelations as I'm writing. Each song is like a chapter of my diary.

My music is about my life. If it's something that I've lived, then it's something that I've written about.

I had a lot of songs and words and scenes stuck inside of me. So Jacknife encouraged me to bring them all out. So, in essence, 'You and Others' is my diary.

I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe - and it even explains the world to myself better than I knew it.

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

In a sense, any story that anyone writes is going to be autobiographical - whether it deals directly with the author's experience or not - because it captures what we're obsessed with while working on that particular piece.