Taylor Swift was inducted into the Songwriters Hall Of Fame last night (June 11). At 36, she’s the youngest female to receive the accolade and the second youngest overall – only the great Stevie Wonder has got in earlier, entering the Hall Of Fame in 1983, aged just 33.
In her acceptance speech, Swift quoted Steven Spielberg’s wife Kate Capshaw, who apparently once told her that “good and true things are easy”. The singer then said: “If I look back at my entire 23 year career in music, the ups and downs, the industry battles, the trials and tribulations, the tears and the cheers, and the doubt, the criticisms, fair and unfair, the complete loss of privacy, the world tours and the ego wars and the twists of fate, the absolute magical chaos of this path that I chose when I was too young to remember it ever being a choice at all: songwriting was the easiest thing I ever did.”
