i don’t like your tilted stage
the role you made me play
of the fool
Favourite Taylor Swift Lyrics: Picture to Burn
I really, really hate that,
stupid old pickup truck,
you never let me drive,
you’re a redneck heartbreak,
who’s really bad at lying.
I’m a crumpled up piece of paper lying here
‘Cause I remember it All Too Well.
Even calling this record 1989 was a risk. I had so many intense conversations where my label really tried to step in. I could tell they’d all gotten together and decided, ‘We gotta talk some sense into her. She’s had an established, astronomically successful career in country music. To shake that up would be the biggest mistake she ever makes.’ But to me, the safest thing I could do was take the biggest risk. I know how to write a song. I’m not confident about a lot of other aspects of my life, but I know how to write a song.
Attending the Tommy x Gigi Runway show at New York Fashion Week on September 9th 2016
I don’t feel there is any injustice when people expand beyond my music and speculate on who certain songs might be about. I’ve never named names, so I feel like I still have a sense of power over what people say—even if that isn’t true, and even if I don’t have any power over what people say about me. The fact that I’ve never confirmed who those songs are about makes me feel like there is still one card I’m holding. So if you’re going to look at your life and say, ‘I get to play sold-out football stadiums all over the world. I get to call up my favorite artists and ask them to perform with me, and most of the time they say yes. I get to be on the cover of this magazine'—this is all because I write songs about my own life. So I would feel a little strange complaining about how it’s covered.