"If I look back at my entire 23-year career in music, the ups and downs, the industry battles, the trials and tribulations… songwriting was the easiest thing I ever did,” Swift said in her speech at the event in New York.

Taylor Swift became the second youngest person and the youngest woman—by nearly a decade—to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame on June 11. Here's what she said during…

Taylor Swift has become the youngest woman ever inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame at age 36