Taylor Swift Quotes

To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.

Maybe if my songs feel personal, that's very nice. I like that. I take that as a great compliment.

Every song has a piece of you in it, because just general regret, love. You have to basically zero in on the truth of those particular emotions.

I feel like I have some stuff that matches 'Fight Song,' not in necessarily the message exactly but in the emotion and honesty.

I feel what I sing, and I sing what I feel. Really, that's all I can do.

What I would not like is to be ignored. I write from the heart. I don't write for me. I write for my readers.

When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.

Whenever you write music, you want it to touch people on a certain level. I mean, I've been reading tweets about 'Troublemaker' and people saying 'OMG, I can so relate to this - this is a guy that I fancy, or a girl that I fancy; it's exactly like this person.'

I put my emotions in my music and I want people to relate to that.

To be honest with my music... for me to expect anyone to connect it has to come from a place of honesty.

People are always coming up to me with my books and saying, 'You write these things I think but I could never say.'

I've always wanted to sing. I don't think I have a great voice, but I just think that I get the emotion. It's very authentic. Whatever emotion I'm feeling, I can sing it, and you can feel it.

The only thing I wanted to do in my music is be human and communicate all the aspects of that, which often means being vulnerable.

'Bottled Up' is so honest. It's something we all can relate to.

If I don't relate to a song, I won't sing it. The thing is that if I wrote it, I'm always going to relate to it.

I think unintentionally I gravitate towards concepts and topics that hit home or are something real we can all relate to.

There is no time to leave important words unsaid.

Even though I'm an actor, even though I know a little bit about film, I very much view things as an audience member. For me, whether it's TV, film, theater, whatever, it's a big movie, a small movie, whatever it is, I look for the truth in it. I look for the honesty. I just look for if it feels honest and real to me.

The fact is that all the recording science and technology in the world is no substitute for a good song or for real feeling. Music is about feeling and if there isn't any genuine feeling, if the song isn't about anything that anyone gives a damn about, there's nothing you can do. All the technique that exists won't make it any good; it'll just make it technological. All the production values you add won't do anything except make it glossy.

Man, that's the only kind of book I like – one that's so real you want to find out everything there is to know about the person who wrote it, like how tall he is and what kind of music he likes and whether or not he really went through all the stuff he was writing about.

How I wish I were able to say what I think.

If you want to know me, listen to my music.

I think that the best way you can get honesty across in your music to connect and relate to people is to be motivated by personal emotions, stories and feelings.

Jesus, music has always been my first love. I use music in my work because it's the fastest way to an emotional place. You hear a song, and that memory comes right back-- you're there... Making music is immediate, and it's all about you. If you're playing guitar, the feeling comes through-- the way you bend the note, the intensity with which you hit the strings. With making films, although it's real emotion, it's false emotion. You're lying.

I've come to realize that people connect more when they know you're telling them the truth or some aspect of your story, some mutated version of how you are experiencing this life.