#take chances

Maybe life isn’t about avoiding the bruises. Maybe it’s about collecting the scars to prove we showed up for it.

How did you get so into music that came out before you were born?

I love looking back at music history and pop culture history. I’m fascinated by the attitude that the late ‘80s seemed to have. In pop music, everybody was taking chances and being creative for the sake of being creative. Everybody was reinventing themselves and taking bold risks and challenging their art. In fashion, everyone was challenging the norm, too – “What are the normal colors we can wear? What are the normal things we can rebel against?” There was a general feeling of intense optimism and endless potential, that really anything was possible. All those things seem to have incorporated themselves into my life in the last two years. I look at this album as me starting over. —Taylor Swift

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop-shop/6296366/taylor-swift-on-new-album-1989