Taylor Swift Quotes

As a stand up, and often in acting, there is no place for the most intense feelings. Rage, genuine sorrow, naked hope... These things don't fit on a comedy stage and if you act you'll get to express them once in a while. Music is a place for the intensely personal.

I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn't say in real life.

The biggest thing that I hope people take away when they listen to my music is that they feel that there is an outlet being presented that allows them to be more authentic and for them to be more honest in their own lives.

I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.

Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in my music.

Writing songs was like my ticket to the world, I think.

I think the most important thing for an artist is to not worry about what anybody else thinks. You just have to do what comes from your heart and your being and put it out there-that's true in any of the arts.

Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that.

I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.

When people like your music because it has vulnerable honesty, and you're able to comfortably admit to flaws and imperfections, then that's the most liberating thing about being an artist.

I was never your average artist, happy to do whatever the record company told me.

I think I'm just doing me, my music, my shows, and my stories.

When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking. I feel I am in a prison. I feel I lose my fire and my color. It should be a necessity, as the sea needs to heave, and I call it breathing.

We all need to have a creative outlet - a window, a space - so we don't lose track of ourselves.

I think I gravitate towards rock 'n' roll as a playground where I can say anything.

I started to write songs. And I started to like what I was writing. I think it's a new way for me to express things that are closer to myself than when I play a role, because, of course, it's really not me. I'm finding a new way. I don't know what it's going to be. But I know that I will need to give it to people one day.

It's always nice to be able to capture your life's experiences in a song and hold the emotion in that way.

I need theatre for my equilibrium because in theatre, the actors don't care so much about image, about celebrity; you are more independent.

I feel like the point of being an artist is to have your own voice: to do it the way you would do it and not the way anyone else would do it. If you're a strong enough writer, then that voice is going to come out all the time, and I can't stop it from coming out, no matter what I do.

I don't want to sound like Ross; I don't want to sound like Puff. I want to make my own music: French Montana.

Rap helps me connect emotionally.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

It's weird, because the ideas in my songs aren't controversial to me. I feel like I should be able to sing about anything.

I like to make the music that I really love. You're supposed to make your favorite music that no one else played, and I'd like to just keep it at that and not really change it at all.