Taylor Swift

“I called him up and I just really quickly blurted out, like, I got to see the new 'Toy Story.' I have to tell you all about the film, but we need to write this song. We need to write this song,”

“What means a lot to me about this song is that in life you have friendships, you have memories with people, you form bonds, and then sometimes a path takes you a different way,”

“That really made me feel like I knew exactly what I wanted to write for her.”

“Sometimes you see somebody again down the road and you're just like, 'Man, it's been a while.' Like, but you're the same person that I had all these memories with.”

“We've seen her have her heart broken. Like, we've watched, you know, the car pull away,”

“It was just, I was so excited. It was such a frenetic form of excitement.”

“I watched you drive around the bend / for what I thought would be the last time I saw my friend.”

“Knowing I had his blessing to enter this world was really special for me and kind of helped ease what might have been a stressful situation, if I didn't know that he was good with it,”

“That’s too much of it. Like, you’re inundating yourself with too much criticism that doesn’t really have a focus.”

“But don’t like... God, don’t go to the Notes app and post it. Like, write about it. Make art about this. Don’t respond to trolls in your comments. That’s not what we want from you. We want your art.”

“You have to hold tight to your perception of your art and your relationship with it, and then you just have to kind of like, ‘There it goes, hope you like it! If you don’t know, hope you do in five years! And if you never do, then I was doing it for me anyway.’”

“That song doesn’t exist if I don’t get criticized for every aspect of my personality that people have a problem with or whatever,”

“My favorite thing when I sit down with new artists or songwriters is I’m like, ‘Why are you reading your comments?’”

“I can only speak to me but as I’ve grown up, the intensity of the sort of no-pun-intended ‘message in a bottle’ nature of my songwriting has shifted and changed into something else,”

“This just kind of felt very natural, to be honest,”

“He's been amazing and supportive and encouraging.”

“I get really emotional talking about this.”

“and they never quite happen exactly the same way. And I still don't quite understand how it works.”

“There’s nothing that I can do about that,”