Taylor Swift got nostalgic during her acceptance speech at the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. The superstar became the youngest-ever member of the institution after she was inducted by Brad Paisley. Swift thanked Lainey Wilson for her stripped down performance of “Love Story” and even poked fun at Paisley, her former tour mate.
For months I couldn’t sleep. All night I considered buying a pet lizard to eradicate the problem,” Swift said. During her speech, the singer-songwriter reflected on her time in Nashville, where she began her storied career as a singer-songwriter, and shouted out co-writer Liz Rose and producer Nathan Chapman, who worked on her self-titled debut album.
You can read Swift’s full acceptance speech below. So I am so honored to be inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. I got the news and I was just kind of staring at the words.
I was staring at Nashville. I was just like, “Wow, this is crazy.” And then I kind of zeroed in on a few words that have had a particularly intense impact on my life. The first one being “Nashville,” the second “songwriters.” And the last one, “fame.” I’d like to start with songwriters and expanding upon the impact that word has had on my life.
I started writing songs when I was a little kid and I knew from the time I wrote my first song that even if it couldn’t be my career, it would be my passion. It would be what I centered my entire life around. Nashville is the place that I went to in my middle school daydreams.
It was the place where all the wisdom that I wished to acquire existed in one place. All the lessons that I wished to learn existed in this magical place for me. And it ended up being all of that and more.
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