The Rare Acknowledgement of Love! Read Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn’s Quotes About Their Relationship

Work Over Romance

“I’m aware people want to know about that side of things,” he told British Vogue in September 2018 of their relationship. “I think we have been successfully very private, and that has now sunk in for people. … But I really prefer to talk about work.”

No Advice Needed

When it came to their romance, Joe told Esquire in December 2018 that he didn’t “seek out advice” about their relationship. Why? “Because I know what I feel about it,” he shared. “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 About Their Romance

Taylor told Rolling Stone in September 2019 that Reputation songs “Delicate,” “New Year’s Day,” “Call It What You Want” and “Dress” were “moments of my true story” seemingly referring to her then-budding relationship. She added, “The one-two punch, bait-and-switch of Reputation is that it was actually a love story. It was a love story in amongst chaos.”

Knowing About ‘Folklore’

Following the release of her July 2020 surprise album, Taylor told Entertainment Weekly in November of that year that Joe was one of the only people who knew about the record.

“It was weird because I had never made an album and not played it for my girlfriends or told my friends,” the songstress shared at the time. “The only people who knew were the people that I was making it with, my boyfriend, my family and then my management team.”

Reflecting on ‘Peace’

Taylor spoke candidly about her and Joe’s relationship during a November 2020 Rolling Stone interview with Paul McCartney. The musicians broke down her Folklore song “Peace,” which Taylor explained was “rooted in my personal life.”

“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,” she said, noting that Joe understands this.

At its core, Taylor said, “Peace” is about “would it be enough if I could never fully achieve the normalcy that we both crave?” She added that their “privacy” together is “really just trying to find bits of normalcy.”

Making Music Together

“It was a surprise that we started writing together,” Taylor explained during a Zane Lowe on Apple Music interview from December 2020. “But in a way, it wasn’t because we have always bonded over music and had the same musical tastes.”

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 told her beau when accepting an award at the 2021 Grammys in March of that year.

Happy With What They Have

When discussing his 2022 series Conversations With Friends — which in part features open relationships — Joe explained that he’s content with what he has.

“I think people can do what they want and makes them happy,” the actor said during a February 2022 CTAM presentation, per Deadline. “I’m obviously happy in a monogamous relationship.”

Taylor’s Grammy Win

“That was a surreal bonus of lockdown. That’s an understatement,” Joe told The Guardian in April 2022 about his collaborations with Taylor, which ultimately won him a Grammy Award. Looking back at how they wrote a song together, the actor explained, “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 added, “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.”

Accepting of His Work

When asked how Taylor felt about his Conversations With Friends sex scenes, Joe explained to Extra in May 2022 that she’s a supportive partner.

“I mean she’s read the book and she loves the book so she knows it,” the actor gushed. “She just, like, couldn’t be a bigger fan of the project.”

The Story Behind Making Music

“The idea was that people would just listen to the music rather than focus on the fact that we wrote it together,” Joe explained to British GQ in May 2022 about his involvement on Taylor’s Folklore and Evermore albums. “It was fun to do it together, and I was proud of it. It was nice getting such a positive reception.”

Joe on Taylor Receiving Her Honorary Doctorate

In May 2022, Taylor received her honorary doctorate from New York University. “It’s an incredible honor, it’s absolutely amazing,” Joe gushed during a May 18 interview with Extra.