🎥| Please do take the time to watch the FULL video of Steven Spielberg inducting Taylor into the Songwriters Hall of Fame! It’s nothing short of magnificent which comes as no surprise since he’s one of the best storytellers in history!
love story being a song that taylor followed til the end despite her co-writer not thinking much of it, moved me. her success is intrinsically linked to her faith in her instincts and experience of the human condition. she uniquely inspires me to keep trusting my own intuition
“not that my songwriting didn’t haunt me relentlessly until i cracked the perfect internal rhyme scheme for the third line” god i hope she never puts down a pen ever
“I wrote my first song after learning my first three chords. It felt easy to work incredibly hard at this. It felt easy to nurture something I loved so much, to watch calluses form on the tips of my tiny fingers, and to become a constant observer of the human condition. Because people’s feelings, passions, and motivations have always fascinated me, and it was easy to choose songwriting over everything else in my life.”