Taylor Swift Inducted Into the Songwriters Hall of Fame

“As a director, I am acutely aware of the power that music can have on audiences.” “To just pick up and move our entire family from Pennsylvania to relocate to Nashville so that I could hone my craft in the songwriting capital of the world. But after it became obvious that this was not even remotely a temporary phase their tween daughter was going through, they uprooted their entire lives to move me to Music City. And even though words are supposed to be my thing, I will never be able to express my gratitude to you guys for doing that for me. [applause] Positive feedback and people loving what you wrote feels incredible and I hope you get lots of it. But you need to be ready to receive negative feedback.”