"I write songs that are like diary..." - Quote by Taylor Swift

“People say you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone, but the truth is you just never thought you’d ever lose it.”

“I think that personality traits that come through when somebody is really sincere is what makes them beautiful.”

“Happiness can be reached by choice and how you look at life.”

“I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.”

“Songwriting is like ... being possessed. You try to go to sleep but the song won't let you.”

“I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write.”

“For weeks past he had been making ready for this moment, and it had never crossed his mind that anything would be needed except courage. The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running inside his head, literally for years.”

“No matter what your work, let it be your own. No matter what your occupation, let what you are doing be organic. Let it be in your bones. In this way, you will open the door by which the affluence of heaven and earth shall stream into you.”

“Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.”