Too CuteWe’re Swooning! Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn’s Sweetest Quotes About Their Relationship

On Staying Private

“I’m aware people want to know about that side of things,” Joe also told British Vogue. “I think we have been successfully very private and that has now sunk in for people.”

No Dating Advice Here

“I didn’t seek out advice on [my relationship],” Joe said while speaking with Esquire in December 2018. “Because I know what I feel about it. I think there’s a very clear line as to what somebody should share, or feel like they have to share, and what they don’t want to and shouldn’t have to.”

Writing Songs

Joe told The Sunday Times in December 2019 that “it’s flattering” when Taylor writes songs about him.

Album Secrets

After releasing Folklore in July 2020, Taylor revealed Joe was among the only people who knew she was working on a new album.

“It was weird because I had never made an album and not played it for my girlfriends or told my friends,” she told Entertainment Weekly in November 2020. “The only people who knew were the people that I was making it with, my boyfriend, my family and then my management team.”

Making Music Together

“It was a surprise that we started writing together,” she told Zane Lowe on Apple Music of her and Joe’s collaborations. “But in a way, it wasn’t because we have always bonded over music and had the same musical tastes.”

Understanding Her Lifestyle

In November, Taylor talked about Joe during a Rolling Stone interview. The singer brought up her BF while explaining the meaning of her song “Peace.”

“I, oftentimes, in my anxieties, can control how I am as a person and how normal I act and rationalize things, but I cannot control if there are 20 photographers outside in the bushes and what they do and if they follow our car and if they interrupt our lives. I can’t control if there’s going to be a fake weird headline about us in the news tomorrow,” Taylor said. “I think that in knowing [Joe] and being in the relationship I am in now, I have definitely made decisions that have made my life feel more like a real life and less like just a storyline to be commented on in tabloids.”

Thanking Joe

“Joe, who is the first person that I play every single song that I write, and I had the best time writing songs with you in quarantine,” Taylor said during her March 2021 Grammys acceptance speech.

Being Happy

When discussing his Hulu show Conversations With Friends — which features an open relationship — Joe spoke candidly about his own romance.

“I think people can do what they want and makes them happy. I’m obviously happy in a monogamous relationship,” the actor said while promoting the show, per Deadline.

Sharing His Private Life

“It’s not really [because I] want to be guarded and private, it’s more a response to something else,” he told ELLE in April 2022 about keeping their relationship private. “We live in a culture that is so increasingly intrusive … The more you give – and frankly, even if you don’t give it – something will be taken.”

No More Features

No more T-Swift features! The actor went by the alias William Bowery after helping out and producing some of his famous girlfriend’s songs, but told Elle in April 2022 that he does not plan to help her with any upcoming tracks. “It’s not a plan of mine, no,” he revealed.

On Writing and Winning a Grammy

He told The Guardian in April 2022 about the process of writing music with Taylor. “It wasn’t like, ‘It’s five o’clock, it’s time to try and write a song together. It came about from messing around on a piano, and singing badly, then being overheard, and being, like, ‘Let’s see what happens if we get to the end of it together,'” he explained.

“I mean fun is such a stupid word, but it was a lot of fun. And it was never a work thing, or a ‘Let’s try and do this because we’re going to put this out’ thing. It was just like baking sourdough in lockdown. The Grammy was obviously this ridiculous bonus.”

Writing Music With Taylor

In an interview with GQ Hype, Joe spoke more about his involvement in writing music with Taylor.

“Sending it to Justin [Vernon] with the idea of doing a duet and getting voice notes back of him singing over the top and stuff was surreal. It was a perk of lockdown. The idea was that people would just listen to the music rather than focus on the fact that we wrote it together,” he shared. “It was fun to do it together and I was proud of it. It was nice getting such a positive reception.”

‘Lavender Haze’

“I happened upon the phrase ‘Lavender Haze’ when I was watching Mad Men, and I looked it up because I thought it sounded cool. And it turns out that it’s a common phrase used in the ’50s, where they would just describe being in love,” Taylor said in an October 2022 Instagram video. “If you were in the lavender haze, then that meant that you were in that all-encompassing love glow, and I thought that was really beautiful.”
She continued, “I think a lot of people have to deal with this now, not just like ‘public figures.’ because we live in the era of social media, and if the world finds out that you’re in love with somebody, they’re going to weigh in on it. Like my relationship for six years, we’ve had to dodge weird rumors, tabloid stuff, and we just ignore it. So this song is about ignoring that stuff to protect the real stuff.”