LOVE IS PATIENT

I love this picture of Taylor and her Dad.

“I think nowadays we’re in this age of social media, and I think that everybody goes online and we have so many people to compare ourselves to and more often than not we end up feeling like we’re not as good as somebody else, or we’re not as cool as somebody else, or we’re not as good-looking as someone else, but I think that we really need to focus on the fact that those comparisons are just harmful to ourselves and everybody is going through it and having a song that can remind you that there is no one else like you. I just was trying to make something that would make people feel better.”

“I try to make albums that have different layers to them and different songs for different occasions, so I really like for there to be a song that’s perfect for falling in love and a song that’s perfect for driving around with the windows down on a sunny day and then a song for when you’re really upset and sad and a song for when you want to go out and party with your friends or a song to put on in the kitchen when you’re cooking or a song to put on when you’re in the bath, and when it comes out, you’ll have to let me know if I did the job.”

“Well thank you so much for playing it every morning. I really appreciate that. That is so nice of you to do that. And I think that honestly self-love and self-worth, those are never things we’re going to feel all the time. And I think it’s – you shouldn’t put pressure on yourself that you should feel good about yourself all the time. Because I don’t feel that way, I don’t think anyone feels that way: always confident in yourself. But I think that having a song you can listen to that kind of reinforces that feeling or reminds you that you are, that you’re different than everybody else in the whole world, and that intrinsically, that individuality makes you special. Yeah, I definitely struggle with feeling insecurity and that’s probably why I wrote this song: because I wanted a song to perform live that would hopefully be able to pull me out of that sometimes.”

watching this on repeat for the rest of my life

some of us know the album title but we don’t know that we know

“yeah, it’s in french, and that’s another symbolic clue that will be revealed in the next few months. a lot of the clues i want to age well. some of them i want people to get when watching initially and some of them i want them to understand in six months to a year when we go on tour. that’s how far ahead i’ve been planning this album”