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\n\tDuring Taylor Swift<\/a>\u2018s 21-minute acceptance speech<\/a> when being\u00a0inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame<\/a> on Thursday, the star quoted Yellowstone<\/a><\/em>\u2018s John Dutton when sharing words of wisdom for young artists. <\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI would say you really have to prioritize what you love down to your very core, because you\u2019ll need that if your song ever gets heard by the public or the critics or the haters posing as critics or the people chronically online, or the robots posing as people who are chronically online,\u201d said Swift in her heartfelt message to hopeful artists watching. \u201cSongwriters have a real balancing act that they have to conduct every day, because inherently we\u2019re supposed to let it all in \u2014 feel deeply and sensitive to the point of your delusion, and then reflect those feelings and delusions back to the world in the form of a three-and-a-half minute sonic landscape or a bop or a folktale or a battle cry or a 10-minute-coming-of-age-song about a scarf<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tShe then asked the audience gathered at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City to \u201callow me to now make a hard pivot and pull out a quote I love from the show Yellowstone<\/em>.\u201d For the occasion, Swift quoted John Dutton, the Montana rancher played by Kevin Costner, and in an accent said, \u201cIt\u2019s the one constant in life, son. You build something worth having, somebody\u2019s gonna try to take it.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tSwift used the quote to \u201crefer to your self-worth, your peace of mind, and your singular vision as a creator.\u201d \u201cIf you make anything awesome, someone out there is bound to say horrible things about it, or twist what you meant into something completely unrecognizable to you,\u201d she continued. \u201cWhat I hope you discover is this: you can be sensitive, but also durable, and you can accept that feedback and skepticism and criticism are inevitable. You can take what\u2019s useful or constructive from that information and leave out what\u2019s simply damaging to your creativity. No one does or should make art that appeals to everyone everywhere all the time. My favorite art is detailed and singular in its voice, therefore it can\u2019t be digested and metabolized by everyone who experiences it in the same way.\u201d<\/p>\n