Taylor Swift

There's a different vocabulary for men and women in the music industry. Okay: A man does something, it's 'strategic'; a woman does the same thing, it's 'calculated.' A man is allowed to 'react'; a woman can only 'over-react.'

A man does something? 'Confident and bold.' A woman does it the same way, and she's 'smug.' A man 'stands up for himself,' [whereas] a woman 'throws a temper tantrum.'

You know, I went out on a normal amount of dates in my early 20s, and I got absolutely slaughtered for it.

My mistakes have been used against me, my heartbreaks have been used as entertainment, and my songwriting has been trivialized as 'oversharing'.

When this album comes out, gossip blogs will scour the lyrics for the men they can attribute to each song, as if the inspiration for music is as simple and basic as a paternity test.

You know, the thing about me is, anything that I do becomes like a feminist think-piece. And if I launch it, they're going to be like, wow, like, they'll just turn into something that… I think if I launch it, honestly, I think it'll be less cool. ... That's the part that I was kind of… I mean, they're both really edgy, but that's the only thing about that line is that it's like, then the feminists are going to come out. But I mean, you don't give a f—. So…

I have dreams that night that they're in my room taking pictures of me while I'm sleeping. So like I'll be like I'll find I'll like find myself smiling in my sleep like trying to like like because I think there are people in my room taking pictures of me people go you okay not smiling cuz I'm happy smiling cuz like I'm cuz I think people are taking pictures of me.

I've had a lot of stalkers show up to the house armed. So we have to think that way.

I have a lot of issues with buildings like this cuz I always feel like someone has bugged the room and is either videoing me or recording me.

I always have nightmares that I'm being framed for murder.

If your algorithm is giving you either criticisms of yourself or adulation or praise you're creating an ecosystem in which you're the centerpiece of the table. I just don't think that's healthy.

I think it's healthy for your self-esteem to need less internet praise to appease it, especially when three comments down you could unwittingly see someone telling you that you look like a weasel that got hit by a truck and stitched back together by a drunk taxidermist. An actual comment I received once.

Keeping comments turned off is one way to block out 'anyone who might feel the need to tell me to "go die in a hole ho" while I'm having my coffee at nine in the morning'.

Hey Ginny & Georgia, 2010 called and it wants its lazy, deeply sexist joke back. How about we stop degrading hard-working women by defining this horse shit as FuNnY. Also, @netflix after Miss Americana this outfit doesn't look cute on you. Happy Women's History Month I guess.

That's a shockingly offensive thing to say.

Recently I was made aware that AI of 'me' falsely endorsing Donald Trump's presidential run was posted to his site. It really conjured up my fears around AI, and the dangers of spreading misinformation.

My friends used to play a game where we would pick a decade, we wished we could live in instead of this / I'd say the 1830s but without all the racists and getting married off for the highest bid.

I just put those on my albums.

I haven't thought about their experience too much.

I've had a guy be like 'You're not going to write about this are you?'. I'm like 'Yeah. I.'