- On the infamous #TaylorSwiftIsCancelled hashtag after the Kim Kardashian drama: "A mass public shaming, with millions of people saying you are quote-unquote cancelled, is a very isolating experience. I don't think there are that many people who can actually understand what it's like to have millions of people hate you very loudly. When you say someone is cancelled, it's not a TV show. It's a human being. You're sending mass amounts of messageing to this person to either shut up, disappear, or it could also be perceived as, Kill yourself."
- On moving on from the Kanye West and Kim Kardashian drama: "When you're going through loss or embarrassment or shame, it's a grieving process with so many micro emotions in a day. One of the reasons why I didn't do interviews for Reputation was that I couldn't figure out how I felt hour to hour. Sometimes I felt like: All these things taught me something that I never could have learned in a way that didn't hurt as much. Five minutes later, I'd feel like: That was horrible. Why did that have to happen? What am I supposed to take from this other than mass amounts of humiliation? And then five minutes later I'd think: I think I might be happier than I've ever been. It's so strange trying to be self-aware when you've been cast as this always smiling, always happy 'America's sweetheart' thing, and then having that taken away and realising that it's actually a great thing that it was taken away, because that's extremely limiting. We're not going to go straight to gratitude with it. Ever. But we're going to find positive aspects to it. We're never going to write a thank-you note."
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