The queen of break-up songs, Taylor Swift, opens up to Wonderland magazine about relationships and the range of emotions she feels after a split.
“It’s very complex; you’re never feeling just sad,”; she explains. “Maybe you wake up and you feel sad, and then you get angry, and then you feel like ‘I’m fine’… and then you’re insecure, and then there’s jealousy, and then you’re back to sad – and then you feel fine again.”;
And the issue’s April/May cover girl, whose break-up with One Direction’s Harry Styles made headlines back in early January, adds, “relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it’s a green light.”;
So although the many red lights on the road to love may have left her uncertain, they have have certainly fuelled her music. “Growing up listening to James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon, Carole King… they only wrote about what they knew. They told stories they had been through, first-hand experiences,”; she says.
Taylor also says her creative process is purely about self expression and making herself happy: “If I thought about blogs when I wrote my songs I’d be so stifled… I just try to live a life. That’s the main goal: being able to be happy – not to be happy, I mean, to be content.”
Speaking of goals, Taylor admits, “I’ve kind of realized that I have no idea where I’m going to be next year, or in six months, or in two months… I have no idea if I’m going to get married or be single forever or have a family or just be on my own. You know, paint in a cottage by the ocean by myself… you can make a board for all the goals you want in your life with the pictures on it, and that’s great, daydreaming is wonderful, but you can never plan your future.”;
