La nostra paura più grande non è quella di essere inadeguati. La nostra paura più grande è di essere potenti oltre misura. Chiediamo a noi stessi:'chi sono io per essere brillante,straordinario,talentuoso e favoloso?'. In realtà:chi sei tu per non esserlo?
We’re kids and we’re supposed to be excited about everything–and then all of a sudden we’re supposed to be unfazed and so cool that northing really moves us to jump up and down like when we were five. I just reject that idea. I’m not bored at these cool things I get to do. I’m not bored by any of it, so why would I act like that?
The problem with the music business today in trying to capture today’s youth is they’re trying too hard. There are record labels that are admitting to the fact that they’re trying to copy the ‘model’ that has worked for Taylor Swift and Big Machine Records. And the thing is, we just didn’t know any better. I was 16 years old and wrote all these songs about being in high school and sophomore relationships, not thinking that people would relate to it, hoping they would, but there really was no business model to make it work for the younger demographic. If we can relate to lyrics, then we’re going to buy the music and I don’t think that’s a hard formula to figure out. People my age are really, really honest about what they like and what they don’t and they know it when they hear it and they know if they can relate to the lyrics.
Taylor Swift talking about what the music business needs to do to engage today’s youth (x)