💬 | Brad Paisley formally inducting Taylor Swift into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame:
“This is somebody who has conquered the world and done it with songs. All of us were like, ‘How is this teenager doing this? How is she so brilliant?’ And then she goes off and really put her feelings into something that is 100% hers, writes the Speak Now album all by herself. It’s an amazing thing to watch her evolution from somebody who realized this all starts with a song, to take that exact thing and change the world with it.”
talking about how her true north when everything gets crazy is to remember why she started doing it in the first place like no wonder she gets so offended when people ask if she’s retiring
🎥 | Nashville is the place that polished and honed the thing about myself and the thing about my life that I am most proud of and the most passionate about.
✍🏼| Taylor on the aspect of “fame”:
“Fame, that’s sort of a byproduct of my love for music. It’s kind of like songwriter plus Nashville equals fame. It’s why a lot of people know the words to my music, which is awesome. It’s also why there’s sort of like these daily random doses of chaos that just pop up in my life every once in a while, every couple of hours. That can be kind of weird, but I have tools in place in my mind that help me navigate that and get back to true north when life feels so bizarre. Those tools are my memories and the memories that I visit most frequently when I need to return back to some semblance of remembering what normalcy is and why I do this.”