After a whirlwind year on her record-breaking Eras Tour, being named Time’s Person of the Year and releasing two Taylor’s Version re-records, Taylor Swift today marks another milestone.
Born on December 13, 1989 Swift is celebrating her 34th birthday with the release of her Eras Tour Concert Film on streaming platforms across the world. And while fans will be thrilled that they can now enjoy songs not seen in the cinema release, we thought it would be fitting to revisit Swift’s own thoughts.
Here are 13 of Taylor Swift’s best quotes on everything from love and song writing to failure and growing up.
5. “Try to learn something…”
“Because when people are in a hate frenzy and they find something to mutually hate together, it bonds them. And anything you say is in an echo chamber of mockery. You can either stand there and let the wave crash into you, and you can try as hard as you can to fight something that’s more powerful and bigger than you or you can dive under the water, hold your breath, wait for it to pass and while you’re down there, try to learn something.” - The Guardian, 2019 | AFP via Getty Images
6. “You can’t just make cut-and-dry decisions in life.”
“You can’t just make cut-and-dry decisions in life. A lot of things are a negotiation and a grey area and a dance of how to figure it out.” - The Guardian, 2019 | Getty Images
7. “Misogyny is ingrained in people from the time they are born.”
“A man writing about his feelings from a vulnerable place is brave; a woman writing about her feelings from a vulnerable place is oversharing or whining. Misogyny is ingrained in people from the time they are born. So to me, feminism is probably the most important movement that you could embrace, because it’s just basically another word for equality.” - Maxim, 2015 | Getty Images for TAS Rights Mana
8. “Singing about something helps you to express it in a way that feels more accurate”
“Singing about something helps you to express it in a way that feels more accurate. You cannot, no matter what, put words in a quote and have it move someone the same way as if you heard those words with the perfect sonic representation of that feeling…” - Rolling Stone, 2019 | Getty Images for TAS Rights Mana