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8/10 Taylor Swift Candids.

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The Midnights bodysuit.

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Taylor Swift The 1989 World Tour Live In Santa Clara (Photo by John Medina/LP5/Getty Images for TAS)

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Everyone’s got their own relationships and dramas, so they don’t have time to create a complex opinion of every celebrity. Do I get offended when people don’t fully understand how much of the workload is done by me? No, they’re busy with their own lives. If someone has studied my catalog and still doesn’t think I’m behind it, there’s nothing I can do for that person. They may have to deal with their own sexist issues, because if I were a guy and you were to look at my catalog and my lyrics, you would not wonder if I was the person behind it. When I’m in a room with a writer for the first time, and I bring in 10 to 15 nearly finished songs as my ideas, I think they know that I’m not expecting anyone to do the work for me. I’m not going to be one of those artists who walks in and says, “I don’t know, what do you want to write about?” or one of those things where they say, “So what’s going on in your life?,” and I tell them and then they have to write a song about it. I wouldn’t be a singer if I weren’t a songwriter. I have no interest in singing someone else’s words.

“You are absolutely wonderful the way that you are. And the moment that we can stop listening to these messages that we’re receiving every day telling us how we should look, what’s beautiful, what’s sexy, what is cool. You know what I think is better than anyone else’s definition of what “cool” is? I think being happy is better than being cool. And the moment that you can just wash all of that stuff off of you… all those unwanted, uninvited opinions about yourself, and your life, and the way that you are.. the moment you can look in the mirror and see only your own definition of your life, I think that’s the moment that you’re finally clean.”

Ocean blue eyes looking in mine I feel like I might sink and drown and die

Taylor Swift for Rolling Stone Magazine September 2014